> 2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman@xxxxxxx>: >> -----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: >>>>> >>>>> ===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found >>>>> ===>  License 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) > > Compiles fine now. > > Matthias > > does a make install work, and does it function as a library? Thanks! -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list