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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> The libvirt can be used for ARM64? If it can be used for ARM64, what resources are needed for setup ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">How to build libvirt installation environment on ARM64?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I got some resource as follow:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">1.ARM64 hardware is based Cortex-A57 fastmodel
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">2.Host and Guest kernel is linux 3.13.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">3.ARM64 filesystem from linaro releases (<a href="http://releases.linaro.org/latest/openembedded/aarch64/">http://releases.linaro.org/latest/openembedded/aarch64/</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">4.Qemu 1.6.50 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">5.Libvirt-1.2.0 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My configure shell as follow</span><span style="font-family:宋体">：</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">export PKG_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin/pkg-config<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">export PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR=/home/aarch64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/aarch64/usr/lib/pkgconfig<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">./configure --target=aarch64 \<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> --prefix=/home/chenq/libvirt/install \<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> --host=aarch64-linux-gnu \<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> --libdir=/home/aarch64<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> CC=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc \<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> LIBXML_CFLAGS="/home/aarch64/usr/lib"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> CFLAGS="/home/aarch64/usr/include/libfdt"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> LDFLAGS="/home/aarch64/lib"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Then configure error as follow</span><span style="font-family:宋体">：</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">checking for DEVMAPPER... no<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">checking for dm_task_run in -ldevmapper... no<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">checking libdevmapper.h usability... no<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">checking libdevmapper.h presence... no<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">checking for libdevmapper.h... no<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">configure: error: You must install device-mapper-devel/libdevmapper >= 1.0.0 to compile libvirt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I think this only one error is found. The libvirt depends on a lot of other libs,it will be find more similar errors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So, how to create a friendly environment to compile and install libvirt on ARM64 ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">--Kuhn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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