On Wed, 2016-10-26 at 16:47 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I'm happy to announce that libvirt compiles fine from git on Fedora/RISC-V. This has little or no practical value at all, since RISC-V lacks such essentials such as virtualization, qemu etc. However I suppose you could use it as a remote client. Did you actually try connecting to a remote libvirtd instance from the RISC-V machine? No, the qemu emulation has no networking (real hardware will of course have networking).
Fair enough :)
Does the test suite pass? I didn't try it.
I realized the test suite is run as part of the RPM build, so if the RPM build succeeded it means the test suite must have passed! Yay! \o/
It's not massively important that libvirt actually works until the hypervisor specification is sorted out, and real hardware is widely available. Mainly the team want libvirt in order just to satify deps required to build other packages.
I assume packages that depend or build-depend on libvirt actually care about libvirt working :) You don't want to end up with a bunch of fully built packages that crash horribly the second you start using them ;) -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization