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+title: "Manage VMs With HashiCorp Vagrant on a Chromebook" # Title of the blog post.
+date: 2023-02-18T17:22:02-06:00 # Date of post creation.
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+description: "Pairing the powerful Linux Development Environment on modern Chromebooks with HashiCorp Vagrant for managing local virtual machines for development and testing" # Description used for search engine.
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+  - linux
+  - chromeos
+  - homelab
+  - infrastructure-as-code
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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.
+
+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:
+```shell
+sudo apt update
+sudo apt install \
+  build-essential \
+  gpg \
+  lsb-release \
+  wget
+```
+
+Install `libvirt`-related prereqs:
+```shell
+sudo apt install virt-manager libvirt-dev
+```
+
+Add self to `libvirt` group:
+```shell
+sudo gpasswd -a $USER libvirt ; newgrp libvirt
+```
+
+Add HashiCorp repo:
+```shell
+wget -O- https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg
+echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hashicorp.list
+```
+
+Install `vagrant` and plugins:
+```shell
+sudo apt update
+sudo apt install vagrant
+vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt
+```
+
+Prepare a Vagrant directory:
+```shell
+mkdir vagrant-bullseye
+cd vagrant-bullseye
+vagrant init debian/bullseye64
+```
+
+Install `rsync`:
+```shell
+sudo apt install rsync
+```
+
+Enable `rsync` (and disable NFS, which isn't supported within LXD) for Vagrant by editing the `Vagrantfile` to include:
+```
+  config.nfs.verify_installed = false
+  config.vm.synced_folder '.', '/vagrant', type: 'rsync'
+```
+
+Start the VM:
+```shell
+vagrant up
+```
+
+Log in:
+```shell
+vagrant ssh
+```
+