Arista vEOS-lab Vagrant box

A Packer template for creating an Arista vEOS-lab Vagrant box for the libvirt provider.

Prerequisites

• Arista account
• Git
• Packer >= 1.70
• libvirt
• QEMU
• Vagrant >= 2.2.10, != 2.2.16
• vagrant-libvirt

Steps

0. Verify the prerequisite tools are installed.

$ which git packer libvirtd qemu-img qemu-system-x86_64 vagrant
$ vagrant plugin list
vagrant-libvirt (0.9.0, global)

1. Log in and download the vEOS-lab disk image (vmdk) file from Arista. Save the file to your Downloads directory.

2. Convert the vEOS-lab disk image file from vmdk to qcow2.

$ qemu-img convert -pO qcow2 $HOME/Downloads/vEOS64-lab-4.28.1F.vmdk $HOME/Downloads/vEOS.qcow2
$ qemu-img check $HOME/Downloads/vEOS.qcow2

3. Copy the converted disk image file to the /var/lib/libvirt/images directory.

$ sudo cp $HOME/Downloads/vEOS.qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images

4. Modify the file ownership and permissions. Note the owner may differ between Linux distributions.

Ubuntu 18.04

$ sudo chown libvirt-qemu:kvm /var/lib/libvirt/images/vEOS.qcow2
$ sudo chmod u+x /var/lib/libvirt/images/vEOS.qcow2

Arch Linux

$ sudo chown libvirt-qemu:libvirt-qemu /var/lib/libvirt/images/vEOS.qcow2
$ sudo chmod u+x /var/lib/libvirt/images/vEOS.qcow2

5. Create the boxes directory.

$ mkdir -p $HOME/boxes

6. Clone this GitHub repo and cd into the directory.

$ git clone https://github.com/mweisel/veos-lab-vagrant-libvirt
$ cd veos-lab-vagrant-libvirt

7. Packer build to create the Vagrant box artifact. Supply the EOS version number for the version variable value.

$ packer build -var 'version=4.28.1F' arista-veos.pkr.hcl

8. Copy the Vagrant box artifact to the boxes directory.

$ cp ./builds/arista-veos-4.28.1F.box $HOME/boxes/

9. Copy the box metadata file to the boxes directory.

$ cp ./src/arista-veos.json $HOME/boxes/

10. Change the current working directory to boxes.

$ cd $HOME/boxes

11. Substitute the HOME placeholder string in the box metadata file.

$ awk '/url/{gsub(/^ */,"");print}' arista-veos.json
"url": "file://HOME/boxes/arista-veos-VER.box"

$ sed -i "s|HOME|${HOME}|" arista-veos.json

$ awk '/url/{gsub(/^ */,"");print}' arista-veos.json
"url": "file:///home/marc/boxes/arista-veos-VER.box"

12. Also, substitute the VER placeholder string with the EOS version you're using.

$ awk '/VER/{gsub(/^ */,"");print}' arista-veos.json
"version": "VER",
"url": "file:///home/marc/boxes/arista-veos-VER.box"

$ sed -i 's/VER/4.28.1F/g' arista-veos.json

$ awk '/\<version\>|url/{gsub(/^ */,"");print}' arista-veos.json
"version": "4.28.1F",
"url": "file:///home/marc/boxes/arista-veos-4.28.1F.box"

13. Add the Vagrant box to the local inventory.

$ vagrant box add --box-version 4.28.1F arista-veos.json

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details