On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 05:04:26PM +0200, Avi Weit wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using Ubuntu 9.10 and downloaded and extracted libvirt.0.7.5. I have > issued: > ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr --without-xen > > but I get: You must install device-mapper-devel/libdevmapper >= 1.0.0 to > compile libvirt > > Below is a snippet of the final configure output: > > checking for showmount... no > checking for pvcreate... no > checking for vgcreate... no > checking for lvcreate... no > checking for pvremove... no > checking for vgremove... no > checking for lvremove... no > checking for vgchange... no > checking for vgscan... no > checking for pvs... no > checking for vgs... no > checking for lvs... no > checking for iscsiadm... no > checking for DEVMAPPER... no > checking libdevmapper.h usability... no > checking libdevmapper.h presence... no > checking for libdevmapper.h... no > checking for dm_task_run in -ldevmapper... no > configure: error: You must install device-mapper-devel/libdevmapper >= > 1.0.0 to compile libvirt > > /dev/mapper exists on the system. That is a device file created by the kernel/udev. What libvirt wants is the device mapper library, ie libdevmapper.so typically provided by a device-mapper-devel/libdevmapper package, or equivalent for your distro Regards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list