[libvirt] [PATCH] Point users to Virt-Viewer MSI installers for Windows builds
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com>
The Windows port page currently links to pre-built libvirt
DLLs for release 0.8.8 which are 2 years old now. Until we
can reliably produce official Windows installers, point
people to the virt-viewer MSI installers instead which
include the libvirt DLLs.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com>
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as well but we either haven't tested or received reports for them.
</p>
- <h2><a name="installer">Experimental installation
package</a></h2>
+ <h2><a name="installer">Installation
packages</a></h2>
<p>
- A windows installation package is in development. An experimental
- version is available here:
+ Users who need pre-built Windows DLLs of libvirt are advised
+ to use the <a href="http://virt-manager.org">Virt Viewer</a>
+ pre-compiled <a href="http://virt-manager.org/download/">Windows
MSI packages</a>
</p>
- <a
href="http://libvirt.org/sources/win32_experimental/Libvirt-0.8.8-0....
-
- <p>
- <b>It is not production ready.</b>
- </p>
-
- <p>
- This version includes the libvirt development headers and libraries
- for compiling against, the virsh shell with its needed dependencies,
- and untested Python bindings.
- </p>
-
- <h3><a name="caveats">Caveats</a></h3>
-
- <ul>
- <li>
- This installer just repackages the files compiled using Matthias
- Bolte's msys_setup scripting (described below).
- </li>
- <li>
- This is a .exe installer, created using NSIS. We're looking into
- something to create .msi installers as well.
- </li>
- <li>
- The script for the NSIS installer is available online
- <a
href="https://github.com/justinclift/nsis_libvirt_installer">...;.
- </li>
- </ul>
-
- <h3><a name="knowninstallerprobs">Existing problems with this
installer we know about</a></h3>
-
<p>
- These are problems we know about, and need to be fixed in subsequent
- versions of the installer (assistance welcomed):
+ These installers include the libvirt, gtk-vnc and spice-gtk DLLs
+ along with any of their pre-requisite supporting DLLs, the virsh
+ command line tool and the virt-viewer & remote-viewer graphical
+ tools. The development headers are not currently provided in this
+ installer, so this cannot be used for compiling new applications
+ against libvirt.
</p>
- <ul>
- <li>
- New versions install over other libvirt versions
- <br /><br />
- If a version of this installer has installed libvirt on the system
- already, this installer will automatically suggest the same
- installation location, then overwrite the version already there
- without checking.
- <br /><br />
- This is fairly non-optimal, and should be fixed. What should
- probably happen, is for this installer to detect an existing
- installation then offer to either uninstall it first or ask for a
- new installation location.
- <br /><br />
- </li>
-
- </ul>
-
<h2><a name="conntypes">Connection types</a></h2>
<p>
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