Add support for installing additional packages

Separate package lists are provided for client & daemon hosts.

* libvirt_host_extra_daemon_packages
* libvirt_host_extra_client_packages

Author: markgoddard

README.md

@@ -103,6 +103,12 @@ daemon. Default is `true`.
 `libvirt_host_install_client`: Whether to install and enable the libvirt
 client. Default is `true`.
 
+`libvirt_host_extra_daemon_packages`: List of additional packages to install on
+libvirt daemon hosts.
+
+`libvirt_host_extra_client_packages`: List of additional packages to install on
+libvirt client hosts.
+
 `libvirt_host_libvirtd_conf_enabled`: Whether to configure `libvirtd.conf`.
 Default is `true`.
 

defaults/main.yml

@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ libvirt_host_install_daemon: true
 # Whether to install and enable the libvirt client.
 libvirt_host_install_client: true
 
+# List of additional packages to install on libvirt daemon hosts.
+libvirt_host_extra_daemon_packages: []
+
+# List of additional packages to install on libvirt client hosts.
+libvirt_host_extra_client_packages: []
+
 # Whether to configure libvirtd.conf.
 libvirt_host_libvirtd_conf_enabled: true
 # Configuration for libvirtd.conf. Dict mapping option names to values.

tasks/install-client.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 - name: Ensure libvirt client packages are installed
   package:
-    name: "{{ libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client }}"
+    name: "{{ libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client | select | list }}"
     state: present
   register: result
   until: result is success

vars/Archlinux.yml

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 ---
-# List of package dependencies common to all Debian distributions
+# List of default daemon packages to install.
 libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_default:
   - libvirt
   - qemu-headless
   - ebtables 
   - dnsmasq
 
-# List of all client packages to install.
-libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client:
+# List of default client packages to install.
+libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client_default:
   - libvirt
   - libvirt-python
   - python-lxml
@@ -16,13 +16,6 @@ libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client:
 libvirt_host_packages_efi:
   - ovmf
 
-# List of all packages to install
-libvirt_host_libvirt_packages: >
-  {{ libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_default +
-     libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client +
-     (libvirt_host_packages_efi if libvirt_host_enable_efi_support else []) | unique
-  }}
-
 # Packages for RBD volume pool support
 libvirt_host_packages_rbd_volume_pool:
   - libvirt-storage-rbd

vars/Debian.yml

@@ -17,8 +17,11 @@ libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_libvirt_daemon:
     libvirt-daemon-system
     {%- endif -%}
 
-# List of all client packages to install.
-libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client:
+# List of default daemon packages to install.
+libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_default: "{{ libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_common + libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_libvirt_daemon }}"
+
+# List of default client packages to install.
+libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client_default:
   - libvirt-clients
   - "{{ 'python3-libvirt' if libvirt_host_python3 | bool else 'python-libvirt' }}"
   - "{{ 'python3-lxml' if libvirt_host_python3 | bool else 'python-lxml' }}"
@@ -27,14 +30,6 @@ libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client:
 libvirt_host_packages_efi:
   - ovmf
 
-# List of all packages to install
-libvirt_host_libvirt_packages: >
-  {{ libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_common +
-     libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_libvirt_daemon +
-     libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client +
-     (libvirt_host_packages_efi if libvirt_host_enable_efi_support else []) | unique
-  }}
-
 # Packages for RBD volume pool support
 libvirt_host_packages_rbd_volume_pool:
   - libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd

vars/RedHat.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-# List of libvirt package dependencies.
+# List of default daemon packages to install.
 libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_default:
   # NOTE(mgoddard): CentOS 8.3 has a bug in which updating qemu-kvm does not
   # update libgcrypt. This leads to failues when using libvirt/qemu. See
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_default:
   - libvirt-daemon-kvm
   - qemu-kvm
 
-# List of all client packages to install.
-libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client:
+# List of default client packages to install.
+libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client_default:
   - libvirt-client
   - "{{ 'python3-libvirt' if libvirt_host_python3 | bool else 'libvirt-python' }}"
   - "{{ 'python3-lxml' if libvirt_host_python3 | bool else 'python-lxml' }}"
@@ -27,13 +27,6 @@ libvirt_host_packages_efi_by_version:
 libvirt_host_packages_efi: >-
   {{ libvirt_host_packages_efi_by_version[ansible_facts.distribution_major_version | int] }}
 
-# List of all packages to install
-libvirt_host_libvirt_packages: >
-  {{ libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_default +
-     libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client +
-     (libvirt_host_packages_efi if libvirt_host_enable_efi_support else []) | unique
-  }}
-
 # Packages for RBD volume pool support
 libvirt_host_packages_rbd_volume_pool:
   - libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd

vars/main.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,17 @@
 ---
+# List of all packages to install for daemon hosts.
+libvirt_host_libvirt_packages: >
+  {{ libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_default +
+     libvirt_host_extra_daemon_packages +
+     libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client +
+     (libvirt_host_packages_efi if libvirt_host_enable_efi_support else []) | unique
+  }}
+
+# List of all packages to install for client hosts.
+libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client: >-
+  {{ libvirt_host_libvirt_packages_client_default +
+     libvirt_host_extra_client_packages }}
+
 # List of socket services.
 _libvirt_socket_services:
   - service: libvirtd-tcp.socket