Re: [libvirt] libvirt, FreeBSD portability inquiry

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