A Packer template for creating a Fortinet FortiGate Vagrant box for the libvirt provider.

• Fortinet account
• Git
• Packer >= 1.70
• libvirt
• QEMU
• Vagrant <= 2.2.9
• vagrant-libvirt

0. Verify the prerequisite tools are installed.

$ which git unzip packer libvirtd qemu-system-x86_64 vagrant
$ vagrant plugin list
vagrant-libvirt (0.4.0, global)

1. Log in and download the FortiGate-VM virtual appliance deployment package from Fortinet. Save the file to your Downloads directory.

2. Extract the disk image file to the /var/lib/libvirt/images directory.

$ cd $HOME/Downloads
$ sudo unzip -d /var/lib/libvirt/images FGT_VM64_KVM-v6-build1828-FORTINET.out.kvm.zip

3. Modify the file ownership and permissions. Note the owner may differ between Linux distributions.

Ubuntu 18.04

$ sudo chown libvirt-qemu:kvm /var/lib/libvirt/images/fortios.qcow2
$ sudo chmod u+x /var/lib/libvirt/images/fortios.qcow2

Arch Linux

$ sudo chown nobody:kvm /var/lib/libvirt/images/fortios.qcow2
$ sudo chmod u+x /var/lib/libvirt/images/fortios.qcow2

4. Create the boxes directory.

$ mkdir -p $HOME/boxes

5. Clone this GitHub repo and cd into the directory.

$ git clone https://github.com/mweisel/fortigate-vagrant-libvirt
$ cd fortigate-vagrant-libvirt

6. Packer build to create the Vagrant box artifact. Supply the FortiOS version number for the version variable value.

$ packer build -var 'version=6.4.5' fortigate.pkr.hcl

7. Copy the Vagrant box artifact to the boxes directory.

$ cp ./builds/fortinet-fortigate-6.4.5.box $HOME/boxes/

8. Copy the box metadata file to the boxes directory.

$ cp ./src/fortigate.json $HOME/boxes/

9. Change the current working directory to boxes.

$ cd $HOME/boxes

10. Substitute the HOME placeholder string in the box metadata file.

$ awk '/url/{gsub(/^ */,"");print}' fortigate.json
"url": "file://HOME/boxes/fortinet-fortigate-VER.box"

$ sed -i "s|HOME|${HOME}|" fortigate.json

$ awk '/url/{gsub(/^ */,"");print}' fortigate.json
"url": "file:///home/marc/boxes/fortinet-fortigate-VER.box"

11. Also, substitute the VER placeholder string with the FortiOS version you're using.

$ awk '/VER/{gsub(/^ */,"");print}' fortigate.json
"version": "VER",
"url": "file:///home/marc/boxes/fortinet-fortigate-VER.box"

$ sed -i 's/VER/6.4.5/g' fortigate.json

$ awk '/\<version\>|url/{gsub(/^ */,"");print}' fortigate.json
"version": "6.4.5",
"url": "file:///home/marc/boxes/fortinet-fortigate-6.4.5.box"

12. Add the Vagrant box to the local inventory.

$ vagrant box add fortigate.json

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details