Running in libvirt VM

Create VM

There is shell script to create/start VM. Run ./libvirt.sh.

virt-viewer

setfont ter-p22n  # increase font size

press F11 to enter fullscreen in virt-viewer

SSH

in virt-viewer:

passwd  # set password for root user

then, on host:

ssh -o 'UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null' -o 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no' -p 22222 root@localhost

Mount working folder

mkdir /src
mount -t 9p base_path /src
cd /src

Install archlinux

Archiso kernel parameters

Press "e" in systemd-boot menu and add these kernel parameters:

• Reserve more virtual disk space for archiso - cow_spacesize=2G
• Set videomode to fhd - video=1920x1080@60m

Update mirrorlist

reflector -c KZ, -p http --completion-percent 99 -f 5 --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Install ansible and archinstall

pacman --noconfirm -Sy archinstall ansible

To be able copy/paste from terminal scrollback install tmux

pacman --noconfirm -S tmux

Create disk layout and mount

archinstall --script only_hd

... or using shell script

bash partition.sh

Install arch

ansible-playbook -i hosts.yml install.yml -e 'part_selector=PARTUUID=<root partition uuid>' --ask-vault-pass

You can get PARTUUID of root partition by running lsblk -no path,partuuid

Tips

Vi-mode for bash

set -o vi

Remove filesystem on disks

wipefs -a <block device path>

Remove partitions

parted <root block device path> rm <partition number>

Remove VM

Stop VM

virsh destroy arch-ansible

Delete VM

virsh undefine --nvram arch-ansible

Delete volume

virsh vol-delete --pool default arch-ansible.qcow2