On 05/13/2011 12:38 AM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
2011/5/12 Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com>:
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.
It would be nice to patch configure.ac to auto-default those settings.
Then it compiles for me. There are still several warnings about NULL format strings and devname shadowing a global symbol.
Do you have details on the shadowing?
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);
Not critical (our printf wrappers explicitly check for NULL), but it does indicate a user-quality issue (no details in the message seems like a loss of information). -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org