Thanks for the Reply Matthias. The ./configure --with-python=/opt/Python2.7 worked. But when i do make I go this error related with sax parser. make[3]: Entering directory `/root/libvirt-0.8.4/python' /opt/Python-2.7//bin/python ./generator.py . Traceback (most recent call last): File "./generator.py", line 1447, in <module> if buildStubs() < 0: File "./generator.py", line 567, in buildStubs (parser, target) = getparser() File "./generator.py", line 35, in getparser parser = xml.sax.make_parser() File "/opt/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/sax2exts.py", line 37, in make_parser return XMLParserFactory.make_parser(parser_list) File "/opt/Python-2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/saxexts.py", line 75, in make_parser sys.modules[parser_name].create_parser = _create_parser KeyError: 'xml.sax.drivers2.drv_pyexpat' make[3]: *** [generated.stamp] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/libvirt-0.8.4/python' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/libvirt-0.8.4/python' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/libvirt-0.8.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 Thanks Vipul <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Matthias Bolte <<a href="mailto:matthias.bolte@googlemail.com">matthias.bolte@googlemail.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;">2011/1/19 vipul borikar <<a href="mailto:vipulcell@gmail.com">vipulcell@gmail.com</a>>: <div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hello, > I want to source compile the libvirt 0.8.4 with its Python > bindings. > > I have python 2.4 rpm installed but i dont use it. I use Python 2.7 source > compiled version. > > So when i compile libvirt it produces bindings for Python 2.4 which is > obvious choice since it is rpm. > > So how should i make it point to Python 2.7 so that it produces bindings for > it. Installed path of Python 2.7 is /opt/Python2.7. > > Please Guide me. </div></div>You can try to run ./configure --with-python=/opt/Python2.7 assuming that there is /opt/Python2.7/bin/python. Another possibility is to specify the Python binary per environment variable PYTHON=/opt/Python2.7/bin/python ./configure This will probably work but I'm not entirely sure as this is an uncommon configuration. Matthias </blockquote></div>