On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 01:43:55PM -0700, steven765@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi Dave, Thanks for the reply after getting some sleep the question I should have asked is what libraries do I need to link the application against? If I just try gcc -o a.out hellolibvirt.c it can't find any of the libvirt calls.

[cc'ing the list again so the answer gets archived] Libvirt's no different from any other library, you need to link against libvirt, and you need to have the libvirt headers installed. On Fedora, that's: yum install libvirt-devel If you want to build hellolibvirt without using make, you'll need to edit hellolibvirt.c and take out config.h, which is unused. Then you can do: gcc -o hellolibvirt -lvirt hellolibvirt.c Then you just need to learn the API and decide what you want to do with it. ;-) The API is documented at: http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html Dave

Thanks, Steve

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I think so, but I'm locked out at home. I'll have to

From: Dave Allan <dallan@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] C API example To: steven765@yahoo.com Cc: "Justin Clift" <justin@salasaga.org>, libvirt-users@redhat.com Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 2:06 PM On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 07:37:27PM -0700, steven765@yahoo.com wrote: try at school tomorrow.  It gave me a remote error, but with the correct directory so fingers crossed thanks! 

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btw might you or anyone know what I have to include to

start a clean project of my own?  So if I want to just build an application that uses the API with nothing else but what's necessary?

If you're talking about a C application, you're pretty much describing hellolibvirt.  I tried to put enough in there to demonstrate a couple of different calls, but hopefully not so much that it's overwhelming. If it seems like there's a lot there, cut some of it out.  You don't need the showDomains function, for example.  Remove it, compile and see what happens.

Dave

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Thanks, Steve

--- On Wed, 6/30/10, Justin Clift <justin@salasaga.org> wrote:

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From: Justin Clift <justin@salasaga.org> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] C API example To: "Dave Allan" <dallan@redhat.com> Cc: steven765@yahoo.com, libvirt-users@redhat.com Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 10:09 PM On 07/01/2010 11:54 AM, Dave Allan wrote: <snip>

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./hellolibvirt \

qemu+unix:///system?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock

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Thanks Dave.  The +unix:// and ?socket=xxx bits

are

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what I'd not been picking up on.  Should be good now.

Steven, is it working for you?

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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