Vagrant in Fedora

Tue Sep 24 12:15:34 UTC 2013

Hi Matthew, 

The rubygems issues look like they can be solved with Mo's help. The policykit stuff is more tricky, mainly because I have no idea how it works, so I really need help here. Here are the problems I'm currently facing: 
1. I'm working on a minimal install to make sure I pull the right dependencies (including qemu etc.), but I need an auth agent for polkit, should I have a dependency on pkexec? 
2. Every time the vagrant command is invoked, the user needs to connect to qemu:///system, may have to change virtual networks (destroy/create), change some NFS shares and firewall rules. What's the best way to manage all that, should I provide a custom policy (how do I create it?), maybe as an option? Should I create a vagrant group with some privileges? Or give them to the wheel group? Will it create security issues on the system? 

Maybe solving point 1 is enough to have a working vagrant-kvm environment, but the issues in 2 hinder the usability of Vagrant (because you have to authenticate during the command execution) and makes vagrant-kvm not as fluid as with VirtualBox. My goal has been from the beginning to provide the full Vagrant experience using KVM, so I hope we can solve that. 

Alex 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Matthew Miller" <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> 
To: "Fedora Cloud SIG" <cloud at lists.fedoraproject.org> 
Sent: Monday, 23 September, 2013 2:29:23 PM 
Subject: Re: Vagrant in Fedora 

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 08:37:33AM -0400, Alexandre Drahon wrote: 
> nothing engineering related), I wrote the vagrant-kvm plugin on my spare 
> time to make it work on my Fedora laptop, though there's now a (much more 
> qualified) second maintainer who is also providing support for Ubuntu 
> through a PPA. Matthew asked me if I wanted to work on packaging Vagrant 
> and the KVM plugin for Fedora 20, and I foolishly accepted ;) 

Hi Alex. Thanks so much for letting me trick you into doing this. :) 

> 1. I have a vagrant RPM that installs and works as expected, there's some 
> minimal patching involved which has to do with the fact that Vagrant 
> expect to be running in it's own Ruby 1.9.3 environment in /opt 

Excellent! 

> 2. There was also some patching involved to make the plugin system work, 
> although I haven't tested plugins extensively (some stuff breaks like 
> rubygems loading path) and providing common plugins as RPMs looks like the 
> better way in Fedora. 

Are there some in particular we should be looking at? Maybe we can get other 
people to chip in there once the base package is in. 

> 3. I had to build my own rubygems-childprocess (current Fedora package is 
> very old) and rubygems-log4r (not provided in Fedora) RPMs, but I don't 
> know how I should submit them (package review ticket?). There's a existing 
> ticket for log4r https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905240 , I 
> added it as a dependency to the Vagrant ticket. 

It looks like Mo Morsi is an approved committer for that package 
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/rubygem-childprocess 
and could maybe add you as a co-maintainer too. Mo just responded to this 
thread in another post so that seems like a good possibility. :) 

> 4. I've packaged vagrant-kvm as a RPM and it installs, but I'm running 
> into serious issues with Policykit. I don't think I'll be able to solve 
> that without help, I'm not even sure what's the right way to do it. 

I used to know all about policykit but it has changed a lot in newer 
versions. I know who to ask, though, for anything beyond what I can help 
with -- Miloslav Trmač (mitr) is the current RH maintainer. What's the 
issue? 

> Looks pretty good, right? 

Absolutely! 

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