Re: [libvirt] libvirt, FreeBSD portability inquiry

2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman(a)e-e.com&gt;: > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 08:38:58AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake: >> >> 2011/5/12 Jason Helfman <jhelfman(a)e-e.com&gt;: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am interested in porting libvirt to FreeBSD, and am curious if there >>> may >>> be anything that may not be possible at this point in respect to the >>> libvirt >>> source code to be aware of. Here is the log of the build of the software: >>> >>> I know it has been ported to MacOSX, and thought it could then be >>> possible >>> with FreeBSD. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Jason >> >> libvirt should be compilable on FreeBSD. At least it was in this state >> a while ago when I've fixed some compile errors. I just check it >> again. >> >> You'll need to explicitly run >> >> ./configure --without-network --without-polkit >> >> because libvirt's virtual networking code is specific to Linux bridges >> and libvirt doesn't polkit on FreeBSD yet. >> >> You'll also need this patch on top of libvirt 0.9.1 >> >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-May/msg00831.html >> >> Then it compiles for me. There are still several warnings about NULL >> format strings and devname shadowing a global symbol. >> >> Maybe Eric knows if this warning is critical: >> >> util/sexpr.c: In function 'sexpr2string': >> util/sexpr.c:250: warning: null format string [-Wformat] >> >> virSexprError(VIR_ERR_SEXPR_SERIAL, NULL); >> >> So aside from possible simple compile errors you'll need to port at >> least the virtual networking to FreeBSD when you want to run QEMU >> using libvirt on FreeBSD. If you just want to support the libvirt >> client side to use libvirt to control a hypervisor running on a >> non-FreeBSD host then you're already there. >> >> Matthias >> > > Here is the port: http://jgh.devio.us/files/libvirt.shar.txt > > Anyone have any thoughts on it, or can report success on it? > > download the txt file > run sh ./libvirt.shar.txt > cd libvirt > make install > > Thanks, > Jason I downloaded libvirt.shar.txt to /usr/src/jason/ and running make in the libvirt subdirectory complains about libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz not being in /usr/src/jason/libvirt/distinfo. I'm not really familiar with FreeBSD, did I miss something? Matthias