Ansible Role: virtualbox-guest

Build status for this role:

This role builds, installs and configures the requested VirtualBox guest additions. It searches the guest for a mounted ISO containing the VBoxGuestAdditions, or an ISO file. When not found, it can download the necessary ISO file directly from download.virtualbox.org.

Installation may require a reboot.

Requirements

None, all prerequisites will be installed (and can be removed afterwards). If you don't set the virtualbox_keep variable to true, all packages that were installed for building will be removed (the installed packages will be exactly the same as before executing the role).

• bzip2
• dkms
• gcc
• make
• linux-headers

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values.

virtualbox_keep: A boolean stating whether the packages necessary for compiling should be kept on the system. If not specified, defaults to no.

virtualbox_iso: The location on the guest where the ISO is expected. Note that this file will be removed after successful compiling.

local_virtualbox_iso: Location on the host where the ISO is located. On linux, it is located under /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso. If this variable is set, the role will copy the ISO file from the host to the guest.

virtualbox_remove_os_packages: A boolean stating whether to remove any previously installed VirtualBox packages. If not specified, defaults to no.

virtualbox_version: The requested version of VirtualBox. If the current version does not match that version, it will try to (re)install VirtualBox guest additions. If set to auto, it will try to determine the VirtualBox version of the host system. The defaults can be found in defaults/main.yml.

virtualbox_version: auto

virtualbox_x11: A boolean stating whether VirtualBox guest additions will be compiled with x11 support. If not specified, defaults to no.

virtualbox_use_latest_kernel: A boolean stating whether latest kernel must be installed. If set to false, installation may fail due to kernel headers missing. This is a common situation for Centos. If set to true, kernel will always be updated to latest and VM rebooted if kernel version changed. Default is false.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  become: yes
  become_method: sudo
  roles:
    - role: PeterMosmans.virtualbox-guest

This example will install VirtualBox guest additions, and will not keep the build packages to the system if they are needed to install them.

License

GPLv3

Author Information

Created by Peter Mosmans.

Contributions are more than welcome! Thanks to all contributors so far: see [https://github.com/PeterMosmans/ansible-role-virtualbox-guest/graphs/contributors]