[Libvir] Howto: install libvirt on Debian Etch (the ugly way)

Hello list I read on the list that other people tried to install libvirt on Debian Etch. I finally succeeded so I'll post a little Howto. Maybe someone with a better understanding of automake and C stuff knows a nicer way but the ugly folder with the links to the different header files. The start point is a Debian Etch with a running Xen (in my case it's the xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae package). If you're not using the PAE version of the xen-hypervisor change the "apt-get source" line accordingly. First you will need to install a bunch of development packages apt-get install build-essential libxml2-dev libncurses5-dev apt-get isntall libreadline5-dev python-dev Go to your home directory and install the Xen hypervisor sources cd apt-get source xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae Create a folder with a bunch of symbolic links. We will use this folder libvirt to find the header files. mkdir libvirt-include cd libvirt-include/ ln -s /root/xen-3.0-3.0.3-0/xen/include/public/xen.h ln -s /root/xen-3.0-3.0.3-0/tools/xenstore/xs.h ln -s /root/xen-3.0-3.0.3-0/tools/xenstore/xs_lib.h ln -s /root/xen-3.0-3.0.3-0/xen/include/public xen ln -s /root/xen-3.0-3.0.3-0/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/include/xen/public/ xen/linux Configure the dynamic linker that it will be able to find the libxenstore library echo '/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/lib' > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/i486-linux-gnu.conf ldconfig Go to your home directory, download an extract the libvirt source package cd wget http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-0.2.3.tar.gz tar xvfz libvirt-0.2.3.tar.gz cd libvirt-0.2.3 Configure, build and install the libvirt CFLAGS="-fno-stack-protector -I/root/libvirt-include -L/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/lib" ./configure --with-xen --without-qemu make make install Enable the Unix socket server for xend. Edit /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp and change the line #(xend-unix-server no) to (xend-unix-server yes) Restart your Xen-Daemon /etc/init.d/xend restart If everything work you should see your running virtual machines when you enter virsh list Regards Roman