ansible role: virtualbox

An Ansible role for installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu.

Requirements

This role requires Ansible 2.0 or higher.

Tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04. Should work on all Ubuntu versions >= 12.04.

Role Variables

Default variables:

---
# defaults file for virtualbox
virtualbox_version: "5.0"
virtualbox_install_dkms: no

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

Use the option '--ask-become-pass' (or alias '-K') when running playbook using this role with ansible-playbook (like 'ansible-playbook -i ./hosts vbox.yml -K').

Install VirtualBox:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - { role: hubisan.virtualbox }

Install specific version of VirtualBox and virtualbox-dkms:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - { role: hubisan.virtualbox, virtualbox_version: "4.2", virtualbox_install_dkms: yes }

Installation

Installation from Ansible Galaxy

• On the command line:

  ansible-galaxy install hubisan.virtualbox

• Inside a playbook from requirements file:
  Add the source to requirements.yml:

  - src: hubisan.virtualbox

  And add the command to your playbook:

  - name: install requirements from ansible galaxy
    command: ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml --ignore-errors

  This playbook has to be run before using the role in another playbook.

Installation from Github directly

To install from GitHub directly add the source to requirements.yml:

- name: hubisan.virtualbox
  src: https://github.com/hubisan/ansible-virtualbox

And add the command to your playbook:

- name: install requirements from ansible galaxy
  command: ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml --ignore-errors

This playbook has to be run before using the role in another playbook.

License

MIT

Author Information

Daniel Hubmann