I’ve finally gotten around to installing RHEL8 as my primary desktop. One of my main use cases is to automatically build and configure vm’s using vagrant for testing.

A few things are subtly different on RHEL8, so I thought i’d share my learning (and some of the hacks i’ve put in place until I can investigate further).

Installation

Install Prerequisites

sudo yum -y install libvirt  \
                    libvirt-devel  \
                    ruby-devel  \
                    libxslt-devel \ 
                    libxml2-devel  \
                    libguestfs-tools-c  \
                    ruby-devel  \
                    gcc

Start the libvirt service

sudo systemctl enable --now libvirtd

Download packer into a Packer subdirectory (customise to taste)

mkdir ~/Packer
cd ~/Packer
curl -o ./packer.zip https://releases.hashicorp.com/packer/1.4.1/packer_1.4.1_linux_amd64.zip
unzip packer.zip

Download vagrant CentOS rpm (I’l probably tweak this later, but it works fine for now)

mkdir ~/Vagrant
cd ~/Vagrant
curl -o  vagrant_2.2.4_x86_64.rpm https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant/2.2.4/vagrant_2.2.4_x86_64.rpm

sudo yum install -y ./vagrant_2.2.4_x86_64.rpm

Install the vagrant libvirt plugin

CONFIGURE_ARGS='with-ldflags=-L/opt/vagrant/embedded/lib with-libvirt-include=/usr/include/libvirt with-libvirt-lib=/usr/lib' GEM_HOME=~/.vagrant.d/gems GEM_PATH=$GEM_HOME:/opt/vagrant/embedded/gems PATH=/opt/vagrant/embedded/bin:$PATH vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt

Test your vagrant project by specifying the provider

vagrant up --provider=libvirt

The following worked fine for me, let me know if you get any issues.

References

https://github.com/vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt#provider-options