Install vagrant-libvirt plugin on Arch Linux

I use Vagrant with the vagrant-libvirt plugin on my Arch Linux host quite extensively to quickly spin up dev and lab environments. The plugin’s development is mature and generally feature-complete, but the latest release was June 24, 2023. In the meantime, multiple commits were added to the main branch.

I use the following process rather than the standard installation sourced from RubyGems .

Prerequisites

Verify these Arch packages are installed:

pacman -Q git vagrant dnsmasq iptables-nft libvirt qemu-base bridge-utils ruby pkgconf gcc make

Steps

Open your favorite terminal emulator.
Uninstall the existing vagrant-libvirt plugin (if required).

vagrant plugin uninstall vagrant-libvirt

Clone the vagrant-libvirt repo from GitHub.

git clone https://github.com/vagrant-libvirt/vagrant-libvirt.git

Change to the vagrant-libvirt directory.

cd vagrant-libvirt

Edit the driver.rb file.

vim lib/vagrant-libvirt/driver.rb

Remove the ip_command variable and the libvirt_ip_command key that references it.

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        # Get config options for Libvirt provider.
        config = @machine.provider_config
        uri = config.uri

-       # Setup command for retrieving IP address for newly created machine
-       # with some MAC address. Get it from dnsmasq leases table
-       ip_command = %q( awk "/$mac/ {print \$1}" /proc/net/arp )
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        conn_attr = {
          provider: 'libvirt',
          libvirt_uri: uri,
-         libvirt_ip_command: ip_command,
        }
        conn_attr[:libvirt_username] = config.username if config.username
        conn_attr[:libvirt_password] = config.password if config.password

Build the vagrant-libvirt plugin.

gem build

Install the vagrant-libvirt plugin.

VAGRANT_DISABLE_STRICT_DEPENDENCY_ENFORCEMENT=1 vagrant plugin install ./vagrant-libvirt-*.gem

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