new script / wrapper around virt-install

deploy-vm.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Function to execute a script
+execute_script() {
+  local script_to_execute="$1"
+  echo "Executing: $script_to_execute"
+  "$script_to_execute" || {
+    echo "Script failed: $script_to_execute"
+    return 1  # Indicate failure
+  }
+  return 0  # Indicate success
+}
+
+# Array of scripts
+scripts=(
+  "./scripts/core-count.sh"
+  "./scripts/system-memory.sh"
+  "./scripts/deploy-distro.sh"
+)
+
+# Iterate through the scripts and execute them
+for script in "${scripts[@]}"; do
+  execute_script "$script"
+done
+
+echo "All scripts executed."

scripts/core-count.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Get the core count using nproc --all
+core_count=$(nproc --all)
+
+# Check if nproc --all returns a numerical value greater than 2
+if (( core_count > 1 )); then
+ echo "System has more than 1 core (nproc --all: $core_count)."
+else
+  echo "Warning: System has only $core_count core)."
+  echo "The script requires at least two cores"
+  exit 1  # Exit with an error code to indicate the condition is not met
+fi

scripts/deploy-distro.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Get a list of files in the directory dishes without extensions
+mapfile -t dish_name < <(find "dishes/" -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%f\n" | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//')
+
+# Check if there are any files
+if [ ${#dish_name[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+  echo "No files found in the directory ../dishes."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Display the files with numbered options
+echo "Available files:"
+for i in "${!dish_name[@]}"; do
+  echo "$((i + 1)). ${dish_name[$i]}"
+done
+
+# Prompt the user to select a file
+read -r -p "Enter the number of the file you want to select: " choice
+
+# Validate the user's choice
+if ! [[ "$choice" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || (( choice < 1 )) || (( choice > ${#dish_name[@]} )); then
+  echo "Invalid choice. Please enter a number from 1 to ${#dish_name[@]}."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Get the selected filename
+vm_name="${dish_name[$((choice - 1))]}"
+
+# Output the selected filename
+echo "You selected: $vm_name"
+
+# virt-install command with user-defined VM name
+virt-install \
+    --connect qemu:///system \
+    --os-variant fedora41 \
+    --virt-type kvm \
+    --arch x86_64 \
+    --machine q35 \
+    --name "$vm_name" \
+    --boot uefi \
+    --cpu host-model,topology.sockets=1,topology.cores=2,topology.threads=1 \
+    --vcpus 2 \
+    --memory 2048 \
+    --video virtio \
+    --autoconsole none \
+    --console pty,target.type=virtio \
+    --sound none \
+    --network type=user,model=virtio \
+    --controller type=virtio-serial \
+    --controller type=usb,model=none \
+    --controller type=scsi,model=virtio-scsi \
+    --input type=keyboard,bus=virtio \
+    --input type=tablet,bus=virtio \
+    --rng /dev/urandom,model=virtio \
+    --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/"$vm_name".img,format=raw,bus=virtio,cache=writeback,size=10 \
+    --location=https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/42/Everything/x86_64/os/ \
+    --initrd-inject "dishes/$vm_name".cfg --extra-args "inst.ks=file:dishes/$vm_name.cfg"
+
+echo "virt-install command executed with VM name: $vm_name"

scripts/system-memory.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Read the total memory from /proc/meminfo in MiB
+total_memory=$(awk '/MemTotal/ {print $2}' /proc/meminfo)
+
+# Convert to MiB by dividing by 1024 (since MemTotal is in KiB)
+total_memory_mb=$(( total_memory / 1024 ))
+
+if [[ "$total_memory_mb" -lt "2048" ]]; then
+    echo "Not enough RAM: The system has only ${total_memory_mb}MiB of RAM, but at least 2048 MiB is required."
+    exit 1
+else
+    echo "Sufficient memory available. System has ${total_memory_mb}MiB of RAM."
+fi