Support for other platforms (was: Re: [Libvir] OS X Compile Issue)

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 04:02:49PM -0500, Pat Wendorf wrote: Yes ... Basic problem is that we develop extensions to libvirt and only ever test them on a single rather narrow platform (Fedora). We don't even compile, let alone test them even on Debian, nevermind FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X ... For example, I got libvirt working on Windows and Mac OS X a while back, but it appears that this has now regressed again. The question is what do we want to do about this? Here are some ideas ... (1) Do nothing. [We are here now] (2) Get outside groups to support the other platforms and accept patches from them. Perhaps support those groups with space on the website (some website space already exists but it's out of date). (3) Set up some automated builders to build daily versions of libvirt on other platforms. "Name and shame" by posting the results to this list so hopefully people are motivated to make fixes. (4) Tier 1 support for the other platforms. Only accept patches which don't break them. (This one is a bit tricky because developers won't have / won't want to have access to some of the platforms in question). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top