Re: [libvirt] libvirt, FreeBSD portability inquiry

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