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                setting up VCSA 7.0.3 (vCenter Server Appliance v7.x) in LibVirt/KVM/QEMU
              
          
    Running a VCSA 7.0.3 (VCenter Server Appliance v7.x) on KVM/libvirtd - using virsh/virt-install

I came across this helpful gist where it described trying this with an old version of the VCSA (v6.0) using Ansible.
While I am not using ansible directly (yet), I was able to use the steps there as a starting point and adapt the workflow to be able to bring-up VCSA v7.0.3 in libvirt/KVM.. It should work for any 7.x version, but no guarentees if it will work with VCSA v8.x
There were some slight things i had to adapt (namely, the guestfish commands; the filesystem layout changed since this ansible workbook was created in the newer version of the VCSA).
Environment


## gistf87-podman-bridge.conflistile1.txt
{
  "cniVersion": "0.4.0",
  "name": "podman",
  "plugins": [
    {
      "type": "bridge",
      "bridge": "cni-podman0",
      "isGateway": true,
      "ipMasq": false,
      "ipam": {

## sync-all.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash

EL_VERSION=7

LOG=/tmp/.sync-attempt-out.$$
TIMESTAMP_FILE=/var/tmp/.sync-newer.$$

YUM_BASE=/data/yum${EL_VERSION}
YUM_REPOS_DIR=/etc/yum${EL_VERSION}.repos.d
YUM_CONF=/etc/yum_${EL_VERSION}.conf

## 06-fluentd-daemonset.yaml
---
# Source: fluentd-elasticsearch/templates/service-account.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: es-fluentd
  namespace: monitoring
  labels:
    app: fluentd
    kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"

## node1.sh
#!/bin/sh

INTERFACE=eth0
NETMASK_CIDR='/24' # 255.255.255.0
LOAD_BALANCER_IP=192.168.1.100
LOAD_BALANCER_DNS=api-k8s-lab
LOAD_BALANCER_PORT=6443

CP_PORT=6443
CP0_HOSTNAME=k8s-lab1

## key_dist.py
#!/usr/bin/env python

import atexit
import functools
import gzip
import itertools
import logging
import os
import socket
import sys

## find_stale_metrics.py
#!/usr/bin/python

import optparse # argparse not available since most systems still have python 2.6 (argparse is in 2.7)
import os
import sys
import time

# helper function to return the parent dir given a dir
parent_of = lambda p: os.path.sep.join( p.split( os.path.sep )[:-1] )

## post-install
#!/bin/bash

if [[ $1 -ne 0 ]]; then
        echo "ERROR: failed install, backing out changes"
        mdadm --stop /dev/md{0,1,2,3}
        mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sd{a,b}{1,4,5,6}
 sgdisk --zap /dev/sdb
        exit
fi

## centos75-minimal.ks
install
skipx
text
eula --agreed

lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
timezone Europe/London

# Use network installation

## prep-graphite-db.py
#!/usr/bin/env python

import hashlib
import hmac
import random
import sqlite3
import string

from base64 import b64encode
from itertools import izip, starmap
	{
	"cniVersion": "0.4.0",
	"name": "podman",
	"plugins": [
	{
	"type": "bridge",
	"bridge": "cni-podman0",
	"isGateway": true,
	"ipMasq": false,
	"ipam": {
	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	EL_VERSION=7

	LOG=/tmp/.sync-attempt-out.$$
	TIMESTAMP_FILE=/var/tmp/.sync-newer.$$

	YUM_BASE=/data/yum${EL_VERSION}
	YUM_REPOS_DIR=/etc/yum${EL_VERSION}.repos.d
	YUM_CONF=/etc/yum_${EL_VERSION}.conf
	---
	# Source: fluentd-elasticsearch/templates/service-account.yaml
	apiVersion: v1
	kind: ServiceAccount
	metadata:
	name: es-fluentd
	namespace: monitoring
	labels:
	app: fluentd
	kubernetes.io/cluster-service: "true"
	#!/bin/sh

	INTERFACE=eth0
	NETMASK_CIDR='/24' # 255.255.255.0
	LOAD_BALANCER_IP=192.168.1.100
	LOAD_BALANCER_DNS=api-k8s-lab
	LOAD_BALANCER_PORT=6443

	CP_PORT=6443
	CP0_HOSTNAME=k8s-lab1
	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import atexit
	import functools
	import gzip
	import itertools
	import logging
	import os
	import socket
	import sys
	#!/usr/bin/python

	import optparse # argparse not available since most systems still have python 2.6 (argparse is in 2.7)
	import os
	import sys
	import time

	# helper function to return the parent dir given a dir
	parent_of = lambda p: os.path.sep.join( p.split( os.path.sep )[:-1] )
	#!/bin/bash

	if [[ $1 -ne 0 ]]; then
	echo "ERROR: failed install, backing out changes"
	mdadm --stop /dev/md{0,1,2,3}
	mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sd{a,b}{1,4,5,6}
	sgdisk --zap /dev/sdb
	exit
	fi
	install
	skipx
	text
	eula --agreed

	lang en_US.UTF-8
	keyboard us
	timezone Europe/London

	# Use network installation
	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import hashlib
	import hmac
	import random
	import sqlite3
	import string

	from base64 import b64encode
	from itertools import izip, starmap