I am using the following configure to minimize dependencies and avoid anything unrelated to getting a libvirt remote client going. Turned on —with-remote=yes, --with-python=yes —with-rhel5-api=yes

./configure --with-python --with-apparmor=no --with-apparmor-mount=no --with-attr=no --with-audit=no --with-avahi=no --with-blkid=no --with-capng=no --with-curl=no --with-dbus=no --with-fuse=no --with-hal=no --with-netcf=no --with-numactl=no --with-openwsman=no --with-pciaccess=no --with-sanlock=no --with-sasl=no --with-selinux=no --with-selinux-mount=no --with-ssh2=no --with-udev=no --with-yajl=no --with-xen=no --with-xen-inotify=no --with-qemu=no --with-uml=no --with-openvz=no --with-vmware=no --with-phyp=no --with-xenapi=no --with-libxl=no --with-vbox=no --with-lxc=no --with-esx=no --with-hyperv=no --with-parallels=no --with-test=no --with-remote=yes --with-libvirtd=no --with-rhel5-api=yes --with-gnutls=no --with-polkit=no --with-firewalld=no --with-secdriver-selinux=no --with-secdriver-apparmor=no --with-dtrace=no --with-numad=no --with-network=no --with-secrets=no --with-storage-dir=no --with-storage-fs=no --with-storage-lvm=no --with-storage-iscsi=no --with-storage-scsi=no --with-storage-mpath=no --with-storage-disk=no --with-storage-rbd=no --with-storage-sheepdog=no --with-python=yes --with-interface=no --with-qemu-user=no --with-qemu-group=no --with-macvtap=no --with-virtualport=no

I am getting the following error/warnings.

CC libvirt_util_la-virfile.lo

In file included from util/virfile.c:36:

/usr/include/linux/loop.h:31:2: #error "Wrong dev_t in loop.h"

In file included from util/virfile.c:42:

util/viralloc.h:67: warning: declaration of 'remove' shadows a global declaration

/usr/include/stdio.h:154: warning: shadowed declaration is here

make-3.79.1-p7[3]: *** [libvirt_util_la-virfile.lo] Error 1

I also found this thread relating to compiling clients for RHEL4 from 2011

But it doesn't talk about this error.

From: Cisco Employee <sarvi@cisco.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 23:41:46 +0000
To: "libvirt-users@redhat.com" <libvirt-users@redhat.com>
Subject: [libvirt-users] Libvirt remote-client compilation for RHEL4

Hi,

We are trying to compile Libvirt 1.02 from source for an RHEL4 target.

Our virtualization hosts are running the fedora 17/ RHEL6 with the latest standard libvirt binaries.

This is where VMs will be created.

But our user/development machines are RHEL4 and we would like users to be able to use virsh/libvirt/python to control the Vms running on RHEL6/fedora17 remotely from the their RHEL4 machines.

We are trying to compile a minimalist libvirt necessary on RHEL4 that would make remote control of VMs possible.

Has anyone tried this?

Any suggestions on what options to pass to ./configure to minimize what needs to be compiled for this purpose? Or on RHEL 4?

Thx,

Sarvi