On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:45:41AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake:
2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com>:
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:25:13AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake:
2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com>:
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 08:38:58AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake:
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.
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 -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html E4AD 7CF1 1396 27F6 79DD 4342 5E92 AD66 8C8C FBA5