VM-Manager¶
For the purpose of spinning up self-hosted runners for GitHUB Actions, then here is one approach to slice up some bare metal as virtual machines each instance to run a self-hosted runner.
Install Debian Bullseye¶
Fill the entire disk, create a user and install the Open-SSH server.
Enable sudo¶
Switch user to root, update repositories, install sudo and add your
user to sudoers:
# Switch user to 'root'
su -
apt-get update && apt-get install sudo
usermod -aG sudo <username>
Log out and log back in for the group addition to take effect.
Update repositories and packages¶
Make sure repositories and installation is up-to-date:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Update Firmware¶
Update firmware:
sudo apt-get install isenkram
sudo isenkram-autoinstall-firmware
Then reboot for the firmware additons to take effect.
Install Prerequisites¶
Install qemu, libvirt and vm-manager:
sudo apt install \
qemu \
qemu-utils \
qemu-system \
libvirt-daemon-system \
cloud-utils \
time \
python3 \
python3-pip
This should install qemu, enable KVM, and provide tools management.
Add your user to the libvirt group:
sudo adduser $USER libvirt
cijoe-pkg-qemu¶
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VM-Manager¶
Install:
sudo apt install virt-manager
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