Thanks for the Reply Matthias. The ./configure --with-python=/opt/Python2.7 worked. But when i do make I go this error related with sax parser. make[3]: Entering directory `/root/libvirt-0.8.4/python' /opt/Python-2.7//bin/python ./generator.py . Traceback (most recent call last): File "./generator.py", line 1447, in <module> if buildStubs() < 0: File "./generator.py", line 567, in buildStubs (parser, target) = getparser() File "./generator.py", line 35, in getparser parser = xml.sax.make_parser() File "/opt/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/sax2exts.py", line 37, in make_parser return XMLParserFactory.make_parser(parser_list) File "/opt/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/saxexts.py", line 75, in make_parser sys.modules[parser_name].create_parser = _create_parser KeyError: 'xml.sax.drivers2.drv_pyexpat' make[3]: *** [generated.stamp] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/libvirt-0.8.4/python' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/libvirt-0.8.4/python' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/libvirt-0.8.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 Thanks Vipul On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Matthias Bolte < matthias.bolte(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote: