On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:50:34AM -0600, Yushu Yao wrote:

Hi Experts,

Just wondering is it possible now to run libvirt deamon on non-linux platforms (mainly windows and mac)? If yes, are there instructions on how to build it. If no, what was the roadblock?

I'm trying to find a tool that can control the VMM for desktop/laptop users under win/mac/linux. Mainly for automation of deployment of some appliances. The best tool I've heard is libvirt, but couldn't find any doc on using it for other platforms.

You could probably make libvirtd / QEMU work on Mac OS-X, since its is just BSD underneath and thus close enough to POSIX. It wouldn't magically give you control of the native Mac virtualizaation software - that would requirea new driver. Windows is a much harder task due to the crazy platform API it has, that looks nothing like POSIX. The lack of fork/exec is a huge problem that even gnulib can't magically solve for us. I'm not saying it is impossible, but it will involve alot of work Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|