Run Cygwin - setup.exe. - When it starts up it will show a dialog like this: -
-
- Step through the setup program accepting defaults - or making choices as appropriate, until you get to the - screen for selecting packages:
-
- - The user interface here is very confusing. You have to - click the "recycling icon" as shown by the arrow: -
-
- - which takes the package (and all packages in the subtree) - through several states such as "Install", "Reinstall", "Keep", - "Skip", "Uninstall", etc. -
-You can install "All" (everything) or better select - just the groups and packages needed. Select the following - groups and packages for installation: -
-| Groups | -
- Archive - Base - Devel - Editors - Mingw - Perl - Python - Shells |
-
|---|---|
| Packages | -
- openssh - sunrpc ≥ 4.0-4 (see below) |
-
Once Cygwin has finished installing, start a Cygwin bash shell - (either click on the desktop icon or look for Cygwin bash shell - in the Start menu).
- The very first time you start the Cygwin bash shell, you may
- find you need to run the mkpasswd and mkgroup
- commands in order to create /etc/passwd and
- /etc/group files from Windows users. If this
- is needed then a message is printed in the shell.
- Note that you need to do this as Windows Administrator.
Install Cygwin sunrpc ≥ 4.0-4 package, patched to include
- librpc.dll.
- To do this, first check to see whether /usr/lib/librpc.dll
- exists. If it does, you're good to go and can skip to the next
- step.
- If you don't have this file, either install the binary package - sunrpc-4.0-4.tar.bz2 (just unpack it, as Administrator, in the Cygwin root directory). - Or you can download the - source patch - and apply it by hand to the Cygwin sunrpc package (eg. using - cygport). -
-- Check out - Libvirt from CVS and - apply the latest Windows patch - to the source. -
-Configure libvirt by doing:
--autoreconf -./configure --without-xen --without-qemu --
(The autoreconf step is probably optional).
-The configure step will tell you if you have all the - required parts installed. If something is missing you - will need to go back through Cygwin setup and install it. -
-Rebuild the XDR structures:
--rm qemud/remote_protocol.[ch] qemud/remote_dispatch_*.h -make -C qemud remote_protocol.c --
Build:
--make + Libvirt can only be built as a client on Windows + allowing remote access to systems libvirt servers. + Configure libvirt like this: + + ++./configure \ + --without-sasl \ + --without-avahi \ + --without-polkit \ + --without-python \ + --without-xen \ + --without-qemu \ + --without-lxc \ + --without-openvz \ + --without-libvirtd-If this step is not successful, you should post a full - report including complete messages to - the - libvirt mailing list. -
-
Test it. If you have access to a remote machine
- running Xen or QEMU/KVM, and the libvirt daemon (libvirtd)
- then you should be able to connect to it and display
- domains using, eg:
-
-src/virsh.exe -c qemu://remote/system list --all --
- Please read more about remote - support before sending bug reports, to make sure that - any problems are really Windows and not just with remote - configuration / security. -
-- You may want to install the library and programs by doing: -
--make install --
- The above steps should also build and install Python modules.
- However for reasons which I don't fully understand, Python won't
- look in the
- non-standard /usr/local/lib/python*/site-packages/
- directory by default so you may need to set the environment
- variable PYTHONPATH:
-
-export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages --
- (Change the version number to your version of Python). You - can test Python support from the command line: -
-
-python
->>> import libvirt
->>> conn = libvirt.open ("test:///default")
->>> conn.listDomainsID ()
-[1]
->>> dom = conn.lookupByID (1)
->>> dom.XMLDesc (0)
-"<domain type='test' id='1'> ..."
-
-
- The most common failure will be with import libvirt
- which usually indicates that either PYTHONPATH is
- wrong or a DLL cannot be loaded.
-