Re: [libvirt] libvirt, FreeBSD portability inquiry

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:45:41AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake: > > 2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman(a)e-e.com&gt;: >> >> 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 > > make fetch gives the same error > > Okay, so here's what I did: > > mkdir -p /usr/src/foobar/jason > cd /usr/src/foobar/jason > wget http://jgh.devio.us/files/libvirt.shar.txt > sh libvirt.shar.txt > > This outputs: > > c - libvirt/ > x - libvirt/Makefile > x - libvirt/distinfo > c - libvirt/files > x - libvirt/files/patch-src__util__command.c > x - libvirt/pkg-descr > x - libvirt/pkg-plist > > Then: > > cd libvirt > make fetch > > This outputs: > > ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found > ===>  License accepted by the user > => libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz is not in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt/distinfo. > => Either /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt/distinfo is out of date, or > => libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz is spelled incorrectly. > *** Error code 1 > Stop in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt. > > Matthias > Try and grab a fresh copy of the txt file again. I just re-uploaded it. If you get the same error, I would be suprised, but if you do run this:

make makesum make install