Re: [libvirt] libvirt, FreeBSD portability inquiry

2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman(a)e-e.com&gt;: > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:25:13AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake: >> >> 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 >> > > What happens if you run: > > make fetch > make install > > What commands did you run to get the error? I am not having that issue. > > Thanks, > Jason make fetch gives the same error Okay, so here's what I did: mkdir -p /usr/src/foobar/jason cd /usr/src/foobar/jason wget http://jgh.devio.us/files/libvirt.shar.txt sh libvirt.shar.txt This outputs: c - libvirt/ x - libvirt/Makefile x - libvirt/distinfo c - libvirt/files x - libvirt/files/patch-src__util__command.c x - libvirt/pkg-descr x - libvirt/pkg-plist Then: cd libvirt make fetch This outputs: ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found ===> License accepted by the user => libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz is not in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt/distinfo. => Either /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt/distinfo is out of date, or => libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz is spelled incorrectly. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt. Matthias