# azure-vm-utils

**Repository Path**: mirrors_Azure/azure-vm-utils

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: azure-vm-utils
- **Description**: Azure VM utilities
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2022-11-09
- **Last Updated**: 2026-02-28

## Categories & Tags

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**Tags**: None

## README

# azure-vm-utils

A collection of utilities and udev rules to make the most of the Linux experience on Azure.

## Quick Start

To build:

```
cmake .
make
```

To install:

```
sudo make install
```

# Executables

## azure-nvme-id

`azure-nvme-id` is a utility to help identify Azure NVMe devices.

To run:

```
sudo azure-nvme-id
```

To run in udev mode:

```
DEVNAME=/dev/nvme0n1 azure-nvme-id --udev
```

# Rules for udev

## 80-azure-disk.rules

Provides helpful symlinks in /dev/disk/azure for local, data, and os disks.

# Testing

## unit tests

There are unit test executables provided to validate functionality at build-time.
They are automatically enabled, but can be disabled with -DENABLE_TESTS=0 passed to cmake.

To build without tests:

```
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DENABLE_TESTS=0
make
```

To build and execute tests:

```
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
ctest --output-on-failure
```

Optionally, ctest can be skipped in favor of running tests individually:

```
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
for test in *_tests; do ./$test; done
```

## selfcheck

selfcheck is provided to validate the runtime environment of a VM.

With azure-vm-utils installed in a VM on Azure, simply copy the selfcheck.py executable to the target and
execute with sudo.

```
scp selfcheck/selftest.py $ip: && ssh $ip -- sudo ./selftest.py
```

## test_images

To help automate a spread of tests, test_images provides functional testing for a set of pre-existing images,
assuming azure-vm-utils is already installed.  It depends on az-cli, ssh, and ssh-keygen to create VMs
and ssh into them to run the tests.

To run tests against marketplace and community images with azure-vm-utils:

```
SELFTEST_AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION=<subscription id> \
SELFTEST_AZURE_LOCATION=eastus2 \
pytest -v selftest
```

To run tests for custom images and vm sizes, the following variables are supported with comma-separated values:

- SELFTEST_ARM64_IMAGES
- SELFTEST_ARM64_VM_SIZES
- SELFTEST_GEN1_IMAGES
- SELFTEST_GEN1_VM_SIZES
- SELFTEST_GEN2_IMAGES
- SELFTEST_GEN2_VM_SIZES

For example:

```
SELFTEST_AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION=<subscription id> \
SELFTEST_AZURE_LOCATION=eastus2 \
SELFTEST_GEN2_IMAGES=/my/image1,/my/image2,... \
SELFTEST_GEN2_VM_SIZES=Standard_D2ds_v5,Standard_D2ds_v6,... \
pytest -xvvvs -k test_gen2
```

For convenience, the default spread of VM sizes is assumed if SELFTEST_{ARM64|GEN1|GEN2}_VM_SIZES is unset.
If unable to allocate VM, test is "skipped".

Supported environment variables:

- SELFTEST_ADMIN_USERNAME: admin name to configure VMs with
- SELFTEST_ADMIN_PASSWORD: optional password to enable easy serial-console access
- SELFTEST_ARTIFACTS_PATH: directory path to store artifacts under
- SELFTEST_AZURE_LOCATION: location to use
- SELFTEST_AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION: subscription to use
- SELFTEST_HOLD_FAILURES: skip cleanup for failures
- SELFTEST_REBOOTS: number of reboots to perform in test (default=50)
- SELFTEST_RESOURCE_GROUP: optional RG to use, otherwise one is created

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