Hello Daniel, Thankyou very much for your advice, I really appreciate it. Yes, I do lack sys-admin experience for Linux, but hey how I will learn unless I try it by myself. But after rebuilding the libvirt src rpms, as you advised I managed to install libvirt. So my simple python script no longer complains about not finding libvirt. Many thanks, and best regards Omer <div>On 12/13/06, Daniel Veillard <<a href="mailto:veillard@redhat.com">veillard@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 05:19:24PM +0100, Omer Khalid wrote: > I tried to build libvirt from the source. The autogen.sh complained and > finished with the following output, and message saying "make" to make but > there is not make file created. Check with your sysadmins, most of this really isn't related to libvirt, but how to use RPM. In general you seems to try to do relatively advanced sysadmin operations (virtualization) without much experience about it. Using xen-3.0.1 is risky, it's old code. Using RHEL-4 derivative for this is risky too, RHEL-4 doesn't yet have virtualization support. You need minimal knowledge on compilation and possibly package maintainance. So please listen to me, and check with the people who maintain that special version of the system you are using, most of this really isn't related to libvirt itself, and there is no garantee that even after weeks of trying to help you over mail you would get something working. That said ... > I also tried to install libvirt-0.1.9.1.src.rpm but it complained too.. > rpm -ivh libvirt-0.1.9-1.src.rpm > warning: libvirt-0.1.9-1.src.rpm : V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID de95bc1f > 1:libvirt warning: user veillard does not exist - using > root > ########################################### [100%] > warning: user veillard does not exist - using root it's a warning, harmless, but rebuild means running rpmbuild --rebuild libvirt-0.1.9-1.src.rpm > === Output using cvs sources === > ./configure: line 20295: syntax error near unexpected token `0.14.1' > ./configure: line 20295: `AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(0.14.1)' You lack getext-devel. But again ... check with your system administrator ! Daniel </blockquote></div>