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libvirt 6.7 meson.build error
by Chen Wenwei 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

Found pkg-config: /usr/local/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2) Did not find CMake 'cmake' Found CMake: NO Run-time dependency libapparmor found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake) Library attr found: YES Library audit found: YES Run-time dependency bash-completion found: YES 2.1 Run-time dependency blkid found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake) Library cap-ng found: YES Run-time dependency libcurl found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake) Run-time dependency dbus-1 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake) Run-time dependency devmapper found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake) Library devmapper found: YES meson.build:1048:19: ERROR: Unknown variable "tmp". A full log can be found at /home/libvirt-6.7.0/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt [root@localhost libvirt-6.7.0]#

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bridge + SR-IOV guests with KVM
by Philipp Rosenberger 02 Sep '20

02 Sep '20

Hi, I managed to get SR-IOV with an Intel I350 NIC to work.For this I followed the documentation on this page: https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking#Assignment_from_a_pool_of_SRIOV_VF… But as I have more VMs then VF on the NIC I also have a bridge wich serves the other guests. As I run Debian Buster as host I followed the documentation here: https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking#Debian.2FUbuntu_Bridging If I use only the SRIOV everything works as expected. All guests can be reached for the network and the guests and host can reach each other. The same goes for a sole bridged environment. As I dived into the issue I found an answer form the intel community: https://community.intel.com/t5/Ethernet-Products/82599-VF-to-Linux-host-bri… It says I need to add the "VF mac addresses and eth0 mac address to bridge forwarding database". I have done this with the following command: bridge fdb add 52:54:00:3c:1c:e6 dev eth_lan0 The mac address is from my VM which is on the bridge. And the eth_lan0 interface is the physical interface of my bridge and also the PF of my I350 NIC. This seems to work. But doing this manually is annoying and a bit of a hassle when creating new VMs on the bridge. I there a way to let libvirt do this work? Best regards Philipp PS: This presentation shows it pretty well on page 33: https://events.static.linuxfound.org/sites/events/files/slides/LinuxConJapa…

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Meson build
by Toolybird 01 Sep '20

01 Sep '20

Hi, Just a heads up on my experiences with the new build system. Arch Linux meson-0.55.1 Overall, it looks good, so well done! Just a couple of minor things I noted: 1. Arch uses a meson wrapper script (arch-meson) that sets: --buildtype plain This seems to trigger a bug in meson that results in copious bogus compiler warnings: cc1: warning: ‘-Wformat-y2k’ ignored without ‘-Wformat’ [-Wformat-y2k] cc1: warning: ‘-Wformat-extra-args’ ignored without ‘-Wformat’ [-Wformat-extra-args] cc1: warning: ‘-Wformat-zero-length’ ignored without ‘-Wformat’ [-Wformat-zero-length] cc1: warning: ‘-Wformat-contains-nul’ ignored without ‘-Wformat’ [-Wformat-contains-nul] cc1: warning: ‘-Wformat-security’ ignored without ‘-Wformat’ [-Wformat-security] which of course breaks -Werror builds. I can easily work around it by setting `-D git_werror=disabled' or even better still: CFLAGS+=" -Wall" arch-meson... Maybe this github issue is related?: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/7399 2. Arch currently builds libvirt with support for ZFS. Seeing as ZFS is not in the distro proper, a simple Autoconf tweak is used: ZFS=/usr/bin/zfs ZPOOL=/usr/bin/zpool \ ./configure ... This is surprisingly hard to emulate with meson, in fact it appears impossible, unless I resort to dodgy hacks with sed etc. Cheers

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