Testing Cisco Nexus 9k VM using Vagrant-libvirt

This project is composed of the following parts

• lib/ folder and .gemspec file Vagrant guest plugin for nxos so that vagrant-libvirt completes successfully
• vagrant_box/ folder with base files to build a custom nexus 9k vagrant box for vagrant-libvirt
• tests/ folder with a section to generate a custom Nexus 9k initial config

Prerequisites

• Vagrant
• Vagrant-libvirt
• Ruby development tools

Create a Custom vagrant box

Follow the README found in the vagrant_box/ directory to create and install the custom nexus 9k vagrant box for a libvirt environment.

Create and install the vagrant-nxos plugin

gem build vagrant-nxos.gemspec
vagrant plugin install  vagrant-nxos-1.0.gem

Create a Test environment

• change directory to the tests/ folder.
• modify the iso/nxos_config.txt to your liking. The default value allows the vagrant and admin user to login using the same vagrant insecure key. Its a good idea to set the boot nxos <bootfile> command to the version of nexus 9k software you are using. This way on reboot of the VM it will boot the image and not send show the loader> prompt.
• Create a ISO image with the modified config

  cd tests
  rm nxosv_config.iso
  mkisofs -l -o nxosv_config.iso iso 

• Download the GNS3 OVMF file to the tests directory. This adds UEFI support.

• Run "vagrant init " to generate a initial vagrant file.

• Start the vagrant VM. Here is an example showing how to pass the necessary variables for the UEFI and NXOS config files

NXOS_CONFIG_PATH=/home/linuxsimba/git/vagrant-nxos/tests/ UEFI_LOADER_PATH=/home/linuxsimba/git/vagrant-nxos/tests//OVMF.fd vagrant up