![]() ![]() Launch the MAAS and LXD multipass environment The first place to check if you don’t see the expected output is your BIOS - consult your motherboard or laptop manufacturer documentation if you are uncertain. The tutorial will not work unless you have ensured virtualisation support is enabled. Screenshot from 18-29-37 777×227 15.9 KBĪssuming your machine supports hardware virtualisation, we are ready to move on and launch MAAS. Open a terminal of your choice, and let’s get started.Ĭheck whether multipass installed correctly and is functioning by launching an Ubuntu guest and running the following commands: multipass launch -name foo Install multipassĭuring this tutorial, we’re going to be entering quite a few commands in a terminal. If you don’t have the right machine or OS to try the tutorial, don’t worry - we have created a quick video of ourselves running through the tutorial which you can watch here. The memory and disk space is required because we will later be launching nested VMs inside our new environment using MAAS and LXD. Virtualisation support enabled in the BIOS.A quad core CPU with virtualisation support (Intel VT or AMD-V).( Note: this tutorial has been tested with Ubuntu, but there are reports it works with Hyper V on Windows. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or higher OR Windows with Hyper-V.It will then be simple to spin up a quick MAAS environment without needing to build a complete real environment. When we’re finished, you’ll be able to log in to the MAAS server running inside the VM on your computer, compose nested VMs using LXD, and then commission and deploy them. These nested VMs will represent servers that MAAS can provision. Inside the VM, Multipass will use LXD and Linux configuration to build a virtual private switch and router, and provide a way to create what are called “nested VMs”, or virtual machines inside the virtual machine made by Multipass. ![]() This tutorial uses Multipass to create a self-contained Virtual Machine that includes MAAS and an LXD host right on your desktop or laptop. Multipass is a tool from Canonical that can help you easily create VMs (Virtual Machines). No need to build all of this infrastructure just to try MAAS, we’ll take care of it for you. In this tutorial, we’re going to build all of this automatically for you inside a virtual machine, using multipass. One of these servers runs MAAS, and the others are target servers that MAAS can provision. One way to try MAAS is to have a separate network, such as a simple switch+router, with several servers attached. Having MAAS on the same network as the servers can be problematic at home or the office, because MAAS also provides a DHCP server and it can (will) create issues if target servers and MAAS try to interact on your usual network. This means that MAAS needs to be on the same network as the servers. MAAS works by detecting servers that attempt to boot via a network (called PXE booting). Installing MAAS itself is easy, but building an environment to play with it is more involved. ![]()
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