Can vagrant work with qemu-system-{arm,aarch64}?

[Vladimir Goyda]

I have tuples for multiple linux distributions: xenial, bionic, buster for armhf and aarch64

Each tuple contains an image of the root filesystem, initrd.img and vmlinuz files. 

They work fine with qemu-system-arm and qemu-system-aarch64

Can we use them with vagrant?

for example, qemu works fine this way:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

qemu-system-aarch64 -name final-buster-arm-64 \

    -smp 4 -m 1200M -M virt  -cpu cortex-a57  \

    -initrd initrd.img \

    -kernel vmlinuz \

    -append 'root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyAMA0' \

    -global virtio-blk-device.scsi=off \

    -device virtio-scsi-device,id=scsi \

    -drive file=debian-arm64-final.qcow2,id=rootimg,cache=unsafe,if=none -device scsi-hd,drive=rootimg \

    -drive file=ephemeral.qcow2,id=ephemeral,cache=unsafe,if=none -device scsi-hd,drive=ephemeral \

    -netdev user,hostfwd=tcp::22022-:22,id=net0 -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0 \

    -nographic

How to cook Vagrantfile to use it with vagrant?

Is it possible?

Thanks in advance

Vlad

[dragon788]

You should check out this plugin that lets you use libvirt/qemu as the virtualization engine for Vagrant. https://github.com/vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt

You'll also probably want to build your boxes using Packer with libvirt compatible templates (should be easy to find in GitHub).

[dragon788]

Here are more details on the templates.

https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/qemu.html
https://github.com/ruzickap/packer-templates
https://github.com/jakobadam/packer-qemu-templates