[Koha-devel] Kohadevbox with libvirt/kvm

dcook at prosentient.com.au dcook at prosentient.com.au
Wed Nov 18 23:26:31 CET 2020


I can't speak to the use of libvirt/kvm, since I've only used kohadevbox/Vagrant with Virtualbox. In theory, you should be able to swap out backends, but it depends on whether libvirt/kvm implement the features that Vagrant is using for some critical setup (particularly in terms of synced/shared folders I'd say).

As for re-using existing setups, I would not recommend it. One of the benefits of kohadevbox (https://gitlab.com/koha-community/kohadevbox) and koha-testing-docker (https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-testing-docker) is that they provide updated community-supported standardized environments. Regardless of local circumstances, people across the world should be able to use the same virtualized dev/test environment.

Personally, I use koha-testing-docker. It makes it very easy to destroy and re-create a fresh environment in seconds, which is great when you are testing a lot of different changes.  

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From: Koha-devel <koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org> On Behalf Of Mark Alexander
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Subject: [Koha-devel] Kohadevbox with libvirt/kvm


I've just started looking at kohadevbox, and was wondering if anybody had tried to use it with (1) libvirt/kvm and (2) an existing Debian 9 VM.

The situation is that the last few years, I've already been using libvirt/kvm to create a few Koha VMs for testing, and I have a Debian
9 VM ready to go for gitified development.  I was hoping that perhaps I could modify the kohadevbox system just a bit to use my existing setup, so that (1) I wouldn't be forced to use Virtualbox, and (2) I wouldn't have to wait for it to download and create a new Debian 9 VM, since I already have one.

Has anybody out there tried to do this?

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