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title: "Run Virtual Machines on a Chromebook with HashiCorp Vagrant" # Title of the blog post.
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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
```