Re: [libvirt] OSX Homebrew support note ;)
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 03:29:01PM +0000, Justin Clift wrote:
On 23 Jan 2017, at 11:38, Daniel P. Berrange
<berrange(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 09:55:53AM +0000, Justin Clift wrote:
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>
> I'm looking at (what I hope is the correct) configuration file for the
> build:
>
> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/libvirt.rb
Yep, that's the right one.
> and see '--without-qemu' being passed - what is the reason for that ? It
> looks like you're building libvirtd, so enabling QEMU thereafter should
> not have any significantly difficulties. Certainly we expect the QEMU
> driver code to be platform agnostic - all the Linux specific bits are
> believed to be wrapped in conditionals.
>
> IOW if you see build errors with QEMU on OS-X could you tell us what they
> are.
From memory (it's been a few years!), it was because the QEMU that builds
in Homebrew wouldn't talk to Libvirt anyway. So it was useless to add the
support in.
That's odd - except where Win32 is concerned, I'm surprised if there's
a way to build QEMU such that it would not work with libvirt. The only
thing that's technically non-portable about the way we manage QEMU is
the UNIX socket support, but that's available for every platform except
Win32.
That being said, I do remember someone mentioning they should
probably
worth together ok these days. But, I'm not sure if anyone's checked
and/or really tried to make it work.
So lets enable QEMU in libvirt and for OS-X and just let people file
bugs if they find bits that don't work.
Regards,
Daniel
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