On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:56:07AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Wed, 2016-10-26 at 16:47 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > I'm happy to announce that libvirt compiles fine from git on > > > > Fedora/RISC-V. This has little or no practical value at all, since > > > > RISC-V lacks such essentials such as virtualization, qemu etc. > > > > However I suppose you could use it as a remote client. > > > > > > Did you actually try connecting to a remote libvirtd instance > > > from the RISC-V machine? > > > > No, the qemu emulation has no networking (real hardware will of course > > have networking). > > Fair enough :) > > > > Does the test suite pass? > > > > I didn't try it. > > I realized the test suite is run as part of the RPM build, > so if the RPM build succeeded it means the test suite must > have passed! Yay! \o/ Unfortunately not - I was building libvirt from git (in case it needed any changes). We're missing quite a few packages before libvirt can be built from the RPM, see these files (although they are a bit out of date): https://fedorapeople.org/groups/risc-v/logs/libvirt/ As new packages get built for Fedora 25, we are picking them up automatically and trying to build them for RISC-V: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/risc-v/autobuilder-status.html > > It's not massively important that libvirt actually > > works until the hypervisor specification is sorted out, and real > > hardware is widely available. Mainly the team want libvirt in order > > just to satify deps required to build other packages. > > I assume packages that depend or build-depend on libvirt > actually care about libvirt working :) You don't want to > end up with a bunch of fully built packages that crash > horribly the second you start using them ;) QA-ing the whole thing, beyond simple testing by hand, is quite difficult especially without solid hardware. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list