vagrant-xen

This repository provides a set of Vagrant boxes to configure and install Xen.

The initial goal was to build a test suite for virtual machine introspection tools on Xen in a reproducible environment, but it can be extended to many use cases revolving around Xen development.

Requirements

• Vagrant
• ansible
• ruby-dev
• libvirt-dev

Configuration

A few options can be tweaked in the <distro>/Vagrantfile.

• source: build Xen from source, or use the distribution packages
• vmi: install VMI tools (libvmi, libvmi-python, rekall)

Setup

Install the required Vagrant plugins:

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt vagrant-reload

The choose a supported distribution and build the box:

$ cd fedora
$ vagrant up --provider=libvirt

Your Vagrant box is ready !

Usage

Run vagrant ssh to get a shell into the VM.

Virt-Manager: remote connection

As SSH is open for password authentication, you can manage your VMs from virt-manager with a remote connection.

Use vagrant ssh and ip a to get the IP address of the VM, and add a new connection in virt-manager with these credentials:

• username: root
• password: vagrant