Hi, I am trying to build libvirt on *SL4 (kernal = 2.6.12.6-xen3_12.1_rhel4.1). I tried both snapshot tar ball and the cvs checked out version. With the tar ball, after running the ./configure script, make file is created. But make file fails and complains the following: libvirt.c:24:16: xs.h: No such file or directory In file included from libvirt.c:28: xen_internal.h:15:26: xen/dom0_ops.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [libvirt.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/virtualization/libvirt2/libvirt-0.1.9/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/virtualization/libvirt2/libvirt-0.1.9' make: *** [all] Error 2 While with the cvs version, the script ./autogen.sh fails to create a make file. I am running Python 2.3.4 and gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3). Any help would be much appreciated. Omer * SL4 is Scientific Linux 4 based on Redhat Enterprise 4, and is produced by https://www.scientificlinux.org/ . We are running Cern customised version, with some added tools, which we call SLC4 (C for Cern). -- --------------------------------------------------------------- CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research Information Technology Department CH-1211 Geneva 23 Phone: +41 (0) 22 767 7996 Fax: +41 (0) 22 767 4900 E-mail : Omer.Khalid(a)cern.ch

Hello Daniel, Thanks for you help. I installed xen-devel rpms and manage to make, make check and make install libvirt. Then I tried to test it by trying the simple python script given on the libvirt site. http://libvirt.org/python.html It failed and complained about not finding libvirt module. I guess Python was unable to locate it. I thought "make install" for libvirt would have taken care of it, but seems not to. How could I make Python aware of my libvirt module? Do I need to create an envoirnmental variable or else? ==== Error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "testLibvirt.py", line 1, in ? import libvirt ImportError: No module named libvirt ==== Any help would be much appreciated! Cheers Omer On 12/11/06, Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: -- --------------------------------------------------------------- CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research Information Technology Department CH-1211 Geneva 23 Phone: +41 (0) 22 767 7996 Fax: +41 (0) 22 767 4900 E-mail : Omer.Khalid(a)cern.ch Homepage: http://cern.ch/Omer.Khalid

I tried to build libvirt from the source. The autogen.sh complained and finished with the following output, and message saying "make" to make but there is not make file created. I also tried to install libvirt-0.1.9.1.src.rpm but it complained too.. === src rpm output === rpm -ivh libvirt-0.1.9-1.src.rpm warning: libvirt-0.1.9-1.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID de95bc1f 1:libvirt warning: user veillard does not exist - using root ########################################### [100%] warning: user veillard does not exist - using root === End src rpm output === === Output using cvs sources === I am going to run ./configure with no arguments - if you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the ./autogen.sh command line. /usr/bin/autopoint: line 342: /usr/share/gettext/archive.tar.gz: No such file or directory cvs checkout: cannot find module `archive' - ignored find: archive: No such file or directory find: archive: No such file or directory autopoint: *** infrastructure files for version 0.14.1 not found; this is autopoint from GNU gettext-tools 0.14.1 autopoint: *** Stop. aclocal:configure.in:249: warning: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION' not found in library aclocal:configure.in:250: warning: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library checking build system type... i686-redhat-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-redhat-linux-gnu extra=301 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... 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GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking for g77 option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g77 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g77 supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g77 linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking for library containing xs_read... -lxenstore checking libxml2 no ... checking for libxml2 libraries >= 2.5.0... checking libxml2 xml2-config ... yes ('') checking for initscr in -lcurses... yes checking for main in -lreadline... yes checking for python... /usr/bin/python Found Python version 2.3 ./configure: line 20295: syntax error near unexpected token `0.14.1' ./configure: line 20295: `AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(0.14.1)' === End === On 12/13/06, Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: -- --------------------------------------------------------------- CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research Information Technology Department CH-1211 Geneva 23 Phone: +41 (0) 22 767 7996 Fax: +41 (0) 22 767 4900 E-mail : Omer.Khalid(a)cern.ch Homepage: http://cern.ch/Omer.Khalid

Hello Daniel, Thankyou very much for your advice, I really appreciate it. Yes, I do lack sys-admin experience for Linux, but hey how I will learn unless I try it by myself. But after rebuilding the libvirt src rpms, as you advised I managed to install libvirt. So my simple python script no longer complains about not finding libvirt. Many thanks, and best regards Omer On 12/13/06, Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: