Vagrant with libvirt(KVM) Ubuntu14

Vagrant doesn't have an official provider for libvirt but there is a plugin that allows to run via libvirt KVM on Linux.

First you would think why not VirtualBox/VmWare etc. - simply because KVM is built in and is very lightweight(especially if you run it on your laptop). Also if you have pre-made virtual machines with kvm you can easily package them as Vagrant boxes.

This is what you need to get started on Ubuntu 14.

Obtain package (could be a different version) wget https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/vagrant/vagrant_1.7.4_x86_64.deb
Install package

$ sudo dpkg -i vagrant_1.7.4_x86_64.deb

Install kvm, virt-manager, libvirt and ruby-dev

$ sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
$ sudo apt-get install kvm virt-manager
$ sudo apt-get install libvirt-dev

Remove just in case ruby-libvirt as we need a specific version

$ sudo apt-get remove ruby-libvirt

Instal from gem

$ sudo gem install ruby-libvirt -v '0.5.2'

Install the plugin

$ sudo vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt

_Note_: Installed the plugin 'vagrant-libvirt (0.0.30)'!