Re: [libvirt] libvirt, FreeBSD portability inquiry

2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman(a)e-e.com&gt;: > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:45:41AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake: >> >> 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 >> > > Try and grab a fresh copy of the txt file again. I just re-uploaded it. > If you get the same error, I would be suprised, but if you do run this: I have ports installed under /usr/ports and even the new version fails with the same error as before: > make makesum > make install freebsd# make makesum ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found ===> License accepted by the user => libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. => Attempting to fetch from http://libvirt.org/sources/. libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz 100% of 14 MB 258 kBps 00m00s freebsd# less distinfo MD5 (libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz) = 4182dbe290cca4344a5387950dc06433 SHA256 (libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz) = 02b3423bb188a4a904eac3ee5cb698a55f5172e4d0ac62cbbcb9245a121b7b2b SIZE (libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz) = 15216787 freebsd# make ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found ===> License accepted by the user ===> Extracting for libvirt-0.9.1 => MD5 Checksum OK for libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz. => SHA256 Checksum OK for libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz. ===> Patching for libvirt-0.9.1 ... Now it start to configure and compile libgcrypt-1.4.5_1 but it's installed already due to gnutls and curl. In the end it fails: ... ===> Installing for libgcrypt-1.4.5_1 ===> Generating temporary packing list ===> Checking if security/libgcrypt already installed ===> libgcrypt-1.4.5_1 is already installed You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. If you really wish to overwrite the old port of security/libgcrypt without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" in your environment or the "make install" command line. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/security/libgcrypt. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt. When I try to resolve that as suggested and try to run make for libvirt again it fails with a version mismatch as it seems: freebsd# make ===> libvirt-0.9.1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python2.6 - found ===> libvirt-0.9.1 depends on executable: gmake - found ===> libvirt-0.9.1 depends on shared library: curl.6 - found ===> libvirt-0.9.1 depends on shared library: gcrypt.17 - not found ===> Verifying install for gcrypt.17 in /usr/ports/security/libgcrypt ===> Returning to build of libvirt-0.9.1 Error: shared library "gcrypt.17" does not exist *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt. Maybe my ports tree is outdated? I installed this FreeBSD 8.1 virtual machine like half a year ago and didn't update it since then. Matthias

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