Custom alpine virtual machine image with installed qemu-guest-agent.

Download

https://github.com/maseman/testvm-tflibvirt/releases/latest/download/alpine-qemu-agent-static-ip.qcow2

Utilizes

https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-make-vm-image

Purpose

Used to test qemu-guest-agent bugfix in terraform libvirt provider.

https://github.com/maseman/terraform-provider-libvirt

Details

This is a minimal alpine image with the qemu-guest-agent package installed.

A static IP address 192.168.111.111 is configured on eth0 in the VM.

This address is returned in the response when running the VM using QEMU via the QMP command shown below.

{"execute": "guest-network-get-interfaces"}

This is used to validate the build.

Local build

Requirements

• wget
• make
• qemu-system-x86
• qemu-utils
• netcat

Setup

Requires sudo privileges for ./tool/alpine-make-vm-image and /bin/chown.

(sudo is needed because alpine-make-vm-image requires access to /dev/nbdx and the image is initially created with root ownership).

Build image

make

Creates ./dist/alpine-qemu-agent-static-ip.qcow2

Make environment options

QEMU_NOGRAPHICS=yes make

Adds -nographic to qemu image verification. Used in github workflow.