I haven't investigated what is missing in the Makefiles, but I'm getting link failures on RHEL 5: ../src/.libs/libvirt_driver_nwfilter.a(libvirt_driver_nwfilter_la-nwfilter_ebiptables_driver.o): In function `_printDataType': /home/dummy/libvirt/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_ebiptables_driver.c:306: undefined reference to `virMacAddrFormat' /home/dummy/libvirt/src/.libs/libvirt.so: undefined reference to `virMacAddrCompare' /home/dummy/libvirt/src/.libs/libvirt.so: undefined reference to `virMacAddrGenerate' -- Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org