-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 09:36:17AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake: >2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman@xxxxxxx>: >> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:45:41AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake: >>> >>> 2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman@xxxxxxx>: >>>> >>>> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:25:13AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake: >>>>> >>>>> 2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman@xxxxxxx>: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 08:38:58AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 2011/5/12 Jason Helfman <jhelfman@xxxxxxx>: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I am interested in porting libvirt to FreeBSD, and am curious if >>>>>>>> there >>>>>>>> may >>>>>>>> be anything that may not be possible at this point in respect to the >>>>>>>> libvirt >>>>>>>> source code to be aware of. Here is the log of the build of the >>>>>>>> software: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I know it has been ported to MacOSX, and thought it could then be >>>>>>>> possible >>>>>>>> with FreeBSD. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>> Jason >>>>>>> >>>>>>> libvirt should be compilable on FreeBSD. At least it was in this state >>>>>>> a while ago when I've fixed some compile errors. I just check it >>>>>>> again. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> You'll need to explicitly run >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ./configure --without-network --without-polkit >>>>>>> >>>>>>> because libvirt's virtual networking code is specific to Linux bridges >>>>>>> and libvirt doesn't polkit on FreeBSD yet. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> You'll also need this patch on top of libvirt 0.9.1 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-May/msg00831.html >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Then it compiles for me. There are still several warnings about NULL >>>>>>> format strings and devname shadowing a global symbol. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Maybe Eric knows if this warning is critical: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> util/sexpr.c: In function 'sexpr2string': >>>>>>> util/sexpr.c:250: warning: null format string [-Wformat] >>>>>>> >>>>>>> virSexprError(VIR_ERR_SEXPR_SERIAL, NULL); >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So aside from possible simple compile errors you'll need to port at >>>>>>> least the virtual networking to FreeBSD when you want to run QEMU >>>>>>> using libvirt on FreeBSD. If you just want to support the libvirt >>>>>>> client side to use libvirt to control a hypervisor running on a >>>>>>> non-FreeBSD host then you're already there. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Matthias >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Here is the port: http://jgh.devio.us/files/libvirt.shar.txt >>>>>> >>>>>> Anyone have any thoughts on it, or can report success on it? >>>>>> >>>>>> download the txt file >>>>>> run sh ./libvirt.shar.txt >>>>>> cd libvirt >>>>>> make install >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Jason >>>>> >>>>> I downloaded libvirt.shar.txt to /usr/src/jason/ and running make in >>>>> the libvirt subdirectory complains about libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz not >>>>> being in /usr/src/jason/libvirt/distinfo. >>>>> >>>>> I'm not really familiar with FreeBSD, did I miss something? >>>>> >>>>> Matthias >>>>> >>>> >>>> What happens if you run: >>>> >>>> make fetch >>>> make install >>>> >>>> What commands did you run to get the error? I am not having that issue. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Jason >>> >>> make fetch gives the same error >>> >>> Okay, so here's what I did: >>> >>> mkdir -p /usr/src/foobar/jason >>> cd /usr/src/foobar/jason >>> wget http://jgh.devio.us/files/libvirt.shar.txt >>> sh libvirt.shar.txt >>> >>> This outputs: >>> >>> c - libvirt/ >>> x - libvirt/Makefile >>> x - libvirt/distinfo >>> c - libvirt/files >>> x - libvirt/files/patch-src__util__command.c >>> x - libvirt/pkg-descr >>> x - libvirt/pkg-plist >>> >>> Then: >>> >>> cd libvirt >>> make fetch >>> >>> This outputs: >>> >>> ===> ÂVulnerability check disabled, database not found >>> ===> ÂLicense accepted by the user >>> => libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz is not in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt/distinfo. >>> => Either /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt/distinfo is out of date, or >>> => libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz is spelled incorrectly. >>> *** Error code 1 >>> Stop in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt. >>> >>> Matthias >>> >> >> Try and grab a fresh copy of the txt file again. I just re-uploaded it. >> If you get the same error, I would be suprised, but if you do run this: > >I have ports installed under /usr/ports and even the new version fails >with the same error as before: > >> make makesum >> make install > >freebsd# make makesum >===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found >===> License accepted by the user >=> libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. >=> Attempting to fetch from http://libvirt.org/sources/. >libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz 100% of 14 MB 258 kBps 00m00s > >freebsd# less distinfo >MD5 (libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz) = 4182dbe290cca4344a5387950dc06433 >SHA256 (libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz) = >02b3423bb188a4a904eac3ee5cb698a55f5172e4d0ac62cbbcb9245a121b7b2b >SIZE (libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz) = 15216787 > >freebsd# make >===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found >===> License accepted by the user >===> Extracting for libvirt-0.9.1 >=> MD5 Checksum OK for libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz. >=> SHA256 Checksum OK for libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz. >===> Patching for libvirt-0.9.1 >... > >Now it start to configure and compile libgcrypt-1.4.5_1 but it's >installed already due to gnutls and curl. In the end it fails: > >... >===> Installing for libgcrypt-1.4.5_1 >===> Generating temporary packing list >===> Checking if security/libgcrypt already installed >===> libgcrypt-1.4.5_1 is already installed > You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again > by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. > If you really wish to overwrite the old port of security/libgcrypt > without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" > in your environment or the "make install" command line. >*** Error code 1 >Stop in /usr/ports/security/libgcrypt. >*** Error code 1 >Stop in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt. > >When I try to resolve that as suggested and try to run make for >libvirt again it fails with a version mismatch as it seems: > >freebsd# make >===> libvirt-0.9.1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python2.6 - found >===> libvirt-0.9.1 depends on executable: gmake - found >===> libvirt-0.9.1 depends on shared library: curl.6 - found >===> libvirt-0.9.1 depends on shared library: gcrypt.17 - not found >===> Verifying install for gcrypt.17 in /usr/ports/security/libgcrypt >===> Returning to build of libvirt-0.9.1 >Error: shared library "gcrypt.17" does not exist >*** Error code 1 >Stop in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt. > >Maybe my ports tree is outdated? I installed this FreeBSD 8.1 virtual >machine like half a year ago and didn't update it since then. > >Matthias > Try altering the LIB_DEPENDS to this: LIB_DEPENDS+= curl:${PORTSDIR}/ftp/curl \ gcrypt:${PORTSDIR}/security/libgcrypt \ xml2:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/libxml2 \ gnutls:${PORTSDIR}/security/gnutls And rebuild. To test, you could run: make lib-depends (this will just check if you meet the library dependencies) - -jgh - -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html E4AD 7CF1 1396 27F6 79DD 4342 5E92 AD66 8C8C FBA5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iF4EAREIAAYFAk3OrGEACgkQXpKtZoyM+6U/pAEAjJfmzND+fkSpKForvlL0dUlf wFk8YCfm+ROGpu9eLLMA/iOpc0xKCfqAvJqCJ1NtFMViMX70UMwyAPn6Rl42psOA =tCnY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list