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Asked: 2013-04-15 01:57:07 +0800 CST

Puppet provider does not install prerequisites

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I have cloned a module for virtual machines, but when I try to apply a virtual machine to a node, I get Error: Could not find a suitable provider for virt, which is understandable given that the contents of init.pp specify that a virtualization-capable kernel should already be running (a Xen or OpenVZ kernel).

However, with the included init.pp, I'd expect a failure message somewhere when running puppet agent --test --debug on the node:

class virt {

  fail "testfail"

  case $::virtual {
    /^xen/: { include virt::xen }
    #/^kvm/: { include virt::kvm }
    /^openvzhn/: { include virt::openvz }
  }
}

But it fails with the error above, Error: Could not find a suitable provider for virt. My node definition:

node 'hostname' {

  # common is a custom module including SSH keys, works fine
  include common

  virt { "1001":
    memory => 1024,
    cpus => 4,
    tmpl_cache => "debian-6.0-x86_64",
    ensure => running,
    virt_type => "openvz"
  }
}
debian

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    In the node definition, you are not using the class virt, but the custom type virt.

    You'll find it in modulename/lib/puppet/type.

    It needs a provider, (modulename/lib/puppet/provider) but cannot find one suitable for your system.

    To include the class virt, you could use one of the following:

    include virt or class ( 'virt': }

    The reason it's not working; you are probably missing one of these binaries: (taken from provider)

    commands :virtinstall => "/usr/bin/virt-install"
commands :virsh => "/usr/bin/virsh"
commands :grep => "/bin/grep"
commands :ip => "/sbin/ip"

    That; or you don't have this:

    confine :feature => :libvirt
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