[libvirt-users] Virsh+QEMU, SSH issue on compiled libvirt

[Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)]

Thanks Daniel.

Is there a way around this.
We want the virtualization hosts to have standard Fedora libvirt RPMs
installed and running.

We are eventually trying to compile a subset of libvirt client tools
only(the virsh client, python, libvirt and remote-drivers to run on
various other developer systems ranging from RHEL 4/5/6 to allow them to
be able to connect to the virtualization hosts. These compiled client
tools will need to go into a --prefix=/usr/nonstddir/ which will be NFS
mounted by all developer machines.

I guess one alternative is to custom compile what runs on the
virtualization servers too and have them all be built with
--prefix=/user/nonstddir.

But I am wondering if there is a way to avoid this.

Thanks for your help,

Sarvi

On 3/6/13 10:31 AM, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 06:08:29PM +0000, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)
>wrote:
>> Just to add a little context to what Shantan has been trying to do.
>> 
>> We have libvirt 1.0 from standard fedora RPMs on a few standard Fedora
>>17
>> servers used as virtualization hosts
>> [root at cnh-nehalem-1 ~]# libvirtd --version
>> libvirtd (libvirt) 1.0.0
>> 
>> We are able to use virsh from these standard installs to connect between
>> servers through 
>> virsh -c qemu+ssh://sarvi@libvirthost/system
>> 
>> This has been working.
>> 
>> What we are now trying to do is to
>>     1. compile a slightly newer libvirt-1.0.2 on of these servers
>>     2. Install them into a non standard location like
>>        ./configure --prefix=/users/sarvi/nonstddir
>
>This is your problem. By specifying a different prefix, your new
>libvirt client is going to be looking for the libvirtd socket
>in /users/sarvi/nonstddir/var/lib/libvirt/libvirt-sock instead
>of in /var/lib/libvirt/libvirt-sock
>
>The --prefix you use to compile your libvirt must match the settings
>used for the target libvirt you are connecting to.
>
>
>Daniel
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