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I've lately been trying to do more with [Salt](https://saltproject.io/) at work, but I'm still very much a novice with that tool. I thought it would be great to have a nice little lab environment where I could deploy a few lightweight VMs and practice managing them with Salt - without impacting any systems that are actually being used for anything. I thought it might be fun to create and manage the VMs with [HashiCorp Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/), and ultimately provision them with [HashiCorp Terraform](https://www.terraform.io/). That would give me the tools for quickly creating and destroying a full lab environment in short order.
I've lately been trying to do more with [Salt](https://saltproject.io/) at work, but I'm still very much a novice with that tool. I thought it would be great to have a nice little lab environment where I could deploy a few lightweight VMs and practice managing them with Salt - without impacting any systems that are actually being used for anything. I thought it might be fun to create and manage the VMs with [HashiCorp Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/), which provides a declarative way to define what the VMs should look like. That will make it easy to build up, destroy, and redeploy a development environment in a simple, repeatable way.
Also, because I'm a bit of a sadist, I wanted to do this all on my new [Framework Chromebook](https://frame.work/laptop-chromebook-12-gen-intel). I might as well put my 32GB of RAM to good use, right? It took a bit of fumbling, but this article describes what it took to get a Vagrant VM up and running in the [Linux Development Environment](https://chromeos.dev/en/linux) on my Chromebook (which is currently running ChromeOS v111 beta).
Prereqs:
### Install the prerequisites
There are are a few packages which need to be installed before we can move on to the Vagrant-specific stuff. It's quite possible that these are already on your system.... but if they *aren't* already present you'll have a bad problem[^problem].
```shell
sudo apt update
sudo apt install \
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wget
```
Install `libvirt`-related prereqs:
[^problem]: and [will not go to space today](https://xkcd.com/1133/).
I'll be configuring Vagrant to use [`libvirt`](https://libvirt.org/) to interface with the [Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM)](https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Main_Page) virtualization solution (rather than something like VirtualBox that would bring more overhead) so I'll need to install some packages for that as well:
```shell
sudo apt install virt-manager libvirt-dev
```
Add self to `libvirt` group:
And to avoid having to `sudo` each time I interact with `libvirt`, I'll add myself to that group:
```shell
sudo gpasswd -a $USER libvirt ; newgrp libvirt
```