Re: [libvirt-users] [Spice-devel] [virt-tools-list] Is virsh supposed to work on Windows?

On 09/04/2013 12:53 PM, Fernando Lozano wrote: > Hi there, > > Sorry for the cross-post, but I seeked help on this issue before on > those lists, but nobody answered. :-( > > I'm trying to use virsh and virt-viewer on Windows. I'm running the > latest binaries from http://spice-space.org/download.html, that is, > virt-viewer-x64-0.5.7.msi on a Windows 7 64-bits computer. > > So far I got remote-viewer.exe to work, after some pain. But have no > sucess using virt-viewer.exe and virsh.exe. Are they supposed to work, > or am I loosing my time? It will only work if someone interested enough submits patches. > > Even then virsh can't connect: > > virsh # connect qemu://kvmhost/system > error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor > error: Unable to set close-on-exec flag: Success Here, I wonder if we can't improve the situation; src/util/virutil.c:virSetInherit() does nothing, and its wrapper virSetCloseExec() should therefore always return 0, which makes it very suspicious - the message in src/rpc/virnetsocket.c about close-on-exec not working should never be reached. What version of virsh is included in that msi? Maybe it's just a case of a stale build, for something that has been fixed upstream? But I personally have not tried to build or debug on mingw, to know if this is the only issue, or if you are staring at a number of other portability issues to resolve first.