Fedora in Vagrant with GUI

Fedora in Vagrant with Libvirt.md

Steps

Replace X with major version in this guide

1. Download Fedora DVD Image (Tested with 36 KDE)
2. Create a QEMU/KVM libvirt VM (I use virt-manager) Attach this boot image as boot disk. I used 20GB as the disk size. Name this VM fedoraX
3. Set installation destination to the local drive
4. configure networking so that you have internet access (Should work out of the box with DHCP)
5. Create a user "vagrant" with password "vagrant"
6. Select minimal installation
7. Proceed with installation
8. After installation is complete, reboot
9. Log in as vagrant user and elevate to root sudo su
10. Install necessary packages yum install -y openssh wget gcc
11. Enable SSH server systemctl enable --now sshd
12. Configure sudoers visudo Add a line vagrant ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
13. Shut down the VM
14. Create a directory for the box and navigate to it
    mkdir fedoraX && cd fedoraX
15. Compress the disk image to this directory sudo qemu-img convert -c -O qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/rhelX.Y.qcow2 box.img
16. Make your user owner of this file sudo chown USER:USER box.img

Replace USER with your username

18. Create a file metadata.json with the content

{
  "provider"     : "libvirt",
  "format"       : "qcow2",
  "virtual_size" : 20
}

19. Create a file Vagrantfile with the content

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.ssh.username = "vagrant"
  config.ssh.password = "vagrant"
  config.vm.provider :libvirt do |libvirt|
    libvirt.driver = "kvm"
    libvirt.host = 'localhost'
    libvirt.uri = 'qemu:///system'
  end
  config.vm.define "new" do |custombox|
    custombox.vm.box = "fedoraX"       # REPLACE THIS!!!
    custombox.vm.provider :libvirt do |virt|
      virt.memory = 2048
      virt.cpus = 2
    end
  end
end

20. Create Vagrant box file tar cvzf fedoraX.box ./metadata.json ./Vagrantfile ./box.img
21. Import box into Vagrant vagrant box add --name fedoraX fedoraX.box

You can now use the box with

  host.vm.box = "fedoraX"