How To Install vagrant-libvirt on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vagrant-libvirt
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is vagrant-libvirt
vagrant-libvirt is:
vagrant-libvirt allows Vagrant to control and provision machines via Libvirt toolkit.
It has many relevant features:
- Control local Libvirt hypervisors.
- Upload box image (qcow2 format) to Libvirt storage pool.
- Create volume as COW diff image for domains.
- Create private networks.
- Create and boot Libvirt domains.
- SSH into domains.
- Setup hostname and network interfaces.
- Provision domains with any built-in Vagrant provisioner.
- Synced folder support via rsync, nfs or 9p.
- Snapshots via sahara.
- Package caching via vagrant-cachier.
- Use boxes from other Vagrant providers via vagrant-mutate. Ruby-Versions: all
There are three methods to install vagrant-libvirt
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vagrant-libvirt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vagrant-libvirt
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vagrant-libvirt
Install vagrant-libvirt Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vagrant-libvirt
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vagrant-libvirt
Install vagrant-libvirt Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install vagrant-libvirt
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vagrant-libvirt
How To Uninstall vagrant-libvirt on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the vagrant-libvirt
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vagrant-libvirt
Uninstall vagrant-libvirt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vagrant-libvirt
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vagrant-libvirt
Remove vagrant-libvirt Configurations and Data
To remove vagrant-libvirt
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vagrant-libvirt
Remove vagrant-libvirt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vagrant-libvirt
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vagrant-libvirt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vagrant-libvirt
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.