Building a local dev. environment (Ubuntu)

Dependencies

• build-essential
• qemu
• qemu-kvm
• libvirt-dev
• make

Installing libext2fs

cd /tmp
curl -LOv http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.46.4.tar.gz
tar -xzf e2fsprogs-1.46.4.tar.gz
cd e2fsprogs-1.46.4
./configure
make && make install && make install-libs

Installing libguestfs (v1.46)

apt install -y gperf genisoimage flex bison libncurses-dev libpcre2-dev libaugeas-dev libmagic-dev libjansson-dev libhivex-dev libyara-dev supermin ocaml ocaml-findlib libhivex-ocaml-dev
./init-libguestfs.sh
apt install -y libguestfs-dev

Running as a systemd service

Runtime dependencies

• qemu
• qemu-kvm
• libvirt
• libguestfs

Config file (.toml)

log_level = "info"
virt_dir = "/opt/yavirtd"
calico_pools = ["pool"]
etcd_prefix = "/yavirt/v1"
etcd_endpoints = ["http://127.0.0.1:2379"]

Systemd unit file

[Unit]
Description=yavirtd
After=network.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
User=root
PermissionsStartOnly=true
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/yavirtd /etc/yavirt/yavirtd.toml
Restart=always
RestartSec=8s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target