Ansible Role: virtualbox

This Ansible role installs Oracle VirtualBox on these supported Linux distributions:

• Debian 9 (Stretch),
• Debian 10 (Buster),
• Debian 11 (Bullseye),
• Enterprise Linux 7,
• Enterprise Linux 8,
• Enterprise Linux 9,
• Fedora 35,
• Fedora 36,
• Linux Mint 20 Ulyana,
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver),
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa),
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish),

This Role was tested with GitHub Actions using Ansible Molecule and with a multi virtual machine vagrant environment.

Requirements

None

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values:

# variables for Oracle's signing key
oracle_public_key: https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc
oracle_public_key_id: 2980AECF
oracle_public_key_state: present

# define package dependencies
vbox_dependencies:
  - apt-transport-https
  - build-essential
  - dkms

# define VirtualBox Version, package name, package state
vbox_version: "7.0"
vbox_package: "virtualbox-{{ vbox_version }}" on Debian or "VirtualBox-{{ vbox_version }}" on RedHat
vbox_package_state: latest

# define VirtualBox users
vbox_users: []

# Set debian or ubuntu release name (for example: stretch, buster, eaon, focal)
# If the variable is not set, Ansible will automatically determine the release.
debian_ubuntu_release: ""

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

---
# file: tests/test.yml

- hosts: localhost
  become: true
  vars:
    vbox_users:
      - myaccount
  roles:
    - { role: coglinev3.virtualbox }

Version

Release: 1.2.1

License

BSD

Author Information

Copyright © 2023 Cogline.v3.