ArchLinux for oVirt Packer Configuration

This repository contains Packer configuration and Ansible scripts to create a base ArchLinux image for use on oVirt/QEMU. It includes the bare minimum of additional software beyond cloud-init, ovirt-guest-agent, and the AUR helper yay.

The configuration pattern is cribbed heavily from elasticdog/packer-arch but reorganized and reimplemented in Ansible to better support my own workflow.

Overview

The default configuration is as follows:

• 1CPU
• 512MB RAM
• 8GB disk
• LVM configured with a single PV and VG
• Single root LVM partition formatted ext4
• No swap
• Includes base and base-devel package groups

Usage

This configuration assumes that you have Packer, Ansible, and QEMU installed and configured on your local system. I am building on ArchLinux so generally this will be tested against the latest versions available there. To build:

$ git clone https://github.com/aetherith/packer-ovirt-arch.git
$ cd packer-ovirt-arch
$ cp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ./srv/ssh.pub
$ packer build config.json

As configured the default user is admin and the only way to login is to use the SSH key specified at creation.