Re: [Libvir] libvirt on OS X Leopard 10.5.1

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ah, I knew hyper was 64-bit, but it has no definition on OS X. I thought that long on OS X 10.5.1 was 64 bits in width -- my mistake. > There wre two bugs in the remoteAuthenticate method in libvirt > 0.4.0 which > can cause crashes. I'd recommend testing again with libvirt from > the latest > CVS checkout - its pretty likely that'll fix your problem. The funny thing is that I have all auth mechanisms turned off in libvirtd. But I can see how some of the library's init code may be failing. I did try to build the package from HEAD, but that failed. I will try again and report the errors. Thanks! - -- - -a On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 04:50:29PM -0600, Schley Andrew Kutz wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I spent the weekend attempting to get libvirt working on OS X >> Leopard >> 10.5.1. I was able to get it to compile, but not connect to libvirtd >> running on either my KVM or Xen servers. Here are the instructions >> for >> getting it to compile: >> >> 1. Download libvirt-0.4.0 from the mirrors. >> >> 2. Use macports to install pkgconfig and gnutls >> >> 3. Configure your source: >> >> ./configure --without-xen --without-qemu >> >> 4. Replace instances of 'hyper' in qemu/remote_protocol.x with >> 'long' >> and then follow the instructions on http://libvirt.org/ >> windows.html to >> regen XDR structures. > > This is going to fail big time. 'hyper' is 64-bit in size, where > as long is 32-bit. Any RPC calls which user hyper will crash and > burn if you make this change. > > What errors do you get if you don't make this change ? There may > be better ways to provide compatability. > >> 10. The sources should now build and install. >> >> At this point any attempt to connect to a remote host results in the >> thread dying and OS X catching the exception with the following >> report: >> >> <beginReport> >> Process: Python [57356] >> Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ >> Versions/ >> 2.5/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python >> Identifier: Python >> Version: ??? (???) >> Code Type: X86 (Native) >> Parent Process: bash [59098] >> >> Date/Time: 2008-01-21 16:48:52.228 -0600 >> OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B18) >> Report Version: 6 >> >> Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) >> Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000004 >> Crashed Thread: 0 >> >> Thread 0 Crashed: >> 0 libvirt.0.dylib 0x00412911 remoteAuthenticate + >> 1345 (remote_internal.c:3062) > > There wre two bugs in the remoteAuthenticate method in libvirt > 0.4.0 which > can cause crashes. I'd recommend testing again with libvirt from > the latest > CVS checkout - its pretty likely that'll fix your problem. > > Regards, > Dan. > -- > |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 > 392 2496 -=| > |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/ > ~danberr/ -=| > |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/ > ~danielpb/ -=| > |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B > 9505 -=| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list

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