openSUSE Tumbleweed Vagrant libvirt image.

Assume you want to quickly test out something on openSUSE OS, there are many ways to do it, you can spin up a VM on the public cloud, OpenStack cloud or you can request a VM to be provisioned by the IT team, while all these methods have a wait time ranging from minutes to days, approval process, etc.

If you have a laptop with a decent CPU (8 cores) and RAM (16 GB) you can install vagrant and spin up a vm with in few minutes, this may have a few shortcomings, created VM would be running in an isolated network.

1. Downloading openSUSE Tumbleweed from vagrant site.

vagrant box add opensuse/Tumbleweed.x86_64
==> box: Loading metadata for box 'opensuse/Tumbleweed.x86_64'
box: URL: https://vagrantcloud.com/opensuse/Tumbleweed.x86_64
This box can work with multiple providers! The providers that it
can work with are listed below. Please review the list and choose
the provider you will be working with.

1) libvirt
2) virtualbox

Enter your choice: 1
==> box: Adding box 'opensuse/Tumbleweed.x86_64' (v1.0.20220204) for provider: libvirt
box: Downloading: https://vagrantcloud.com/opensuse/boxes/Tumbleweed.x86_64/versions/1.0.20220204/providers/libvirt.box
==> box: Successfully added box 'opensuse/Tumbleweed.x86_64' (v1.0.20220204) for 'libvirt'!

2. List the download vagrant box.

vagrant box list
centos/7 (libvirt, 2004.01)
opensuse/Tumbleweed.x86_64 (libvirt, 1.0.20220204)

3. Start the vagrant image.

mkdir vagrant-lab
cd vagrant-lab
mkdir suse
cd suse
vagrant init opensuse/Tumbleweed.x86_64

A Vagrantfile has been placed in this directory.

vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'libvirt' provider...
==> default: Checking if box 'opensuse/Tumbleweed.x86_64' version '1.0.20220204' is up to date...
==> default: Uploading base box image as volume into Libvirt storage...
==> default: Creating image (snapshot of base box volume).
==> default: Creating domain with the following settings...
==> default: -- Name: suse_default
==> default: -- Description: Source: /home/cipher/vagrant-lab/suse/Vagrantfile
==> default: -- Domain type: kvm
==> default: -- Cpus: 1
==> default: -- Feature: acpi
==> default: -- Feature: apic
==> default: -- Feature: pae
==> default: -- Clock offset: utc
==> default: -- Memory: 512M
==> default: -- Management MAC:
==> default: -- Loader:
==> default: -- Nvram:
==> default: -- Base box: opensuse/Tumbleweed.x86_64
==> default: -- Storage pool: default
==> default: -- Image(): /var/lib/libvirt/images/suse_default.img, 42G
==> default: -- Disk driver opts: cache='default'
==> default: -- Kernel:
==> default: -- Initrd:
==> default: -- Graphics Type: vnc
==> default: -- Graphics Port: -1
==> default: -- Graphics IP: 127.0.0.1
==> default: -- Graphics Password: Not defined
==> default: -- Video Type: cirrus
==> default: -- Video VRAM: 9216
==> default: -- Video 3D accel: false
==> default: -- Sound Type:
==> default: -- Keymap: en-us
==> default: -- TPM Backend: passthrough
==> default: -- TPM Path:
==> default: -- INPUT: type=mouse, bus=ps2
==> default: Creating shared folders metadata...
==> default: Starting domain.
==> default: Waiting for domain to get an IP address...
==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
default: SSH address: 192.168.121.22:22
default: SSH username: vagrant
default: SSH auth method: private key
==> default: Machine booted and ready!
==> default: Rsyncing folder: /home/cipher/vagrant-lab/suse/ => /vagrant

4. Access VM, we have a sandbox to test.

vagrant ssh
Last login: Sun Feb 6 16:04:00 CET 2022 from 192.168.121.1 on ssh
Have a lot of fun...
vagrant@localhost:~> cat /etc/os-release
NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# VERSION="20220204"
ID="opensuse-tumbleweed"
ID_LIKE="opensuse suse"
VERSION_ID="20220204"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20220204"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed"
LOGO="distributor-logo-Tumbleweed"
vagrant@localhost:~>