[et-mgmt-tools] ANNOUNCE: virt-top 0.3.2.7 released

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Farkas Levente wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> I've put up x86-64 (64 bit) binaries compiled on RHEL 5.
>>
>> http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/download.html
>>
>> Note that you _will_ need libvirt >= 0.2.1, and that can be a problem if
>> you are using RHEL 5 GA because I believe that shipped with libvirt
>> 0.1.8.  We require features from libvirt >= 0.2.1 so it's not likely
>> that we'll ever backport to an older version.
>>
>> Source RPMs are here.  On RHEL 5 GA they need to be compiled in the
>> order: dnsmasq, libvirt, ocaml, ocaml-findlib, ocaml-extlib,
>> ocaml-curses, ocaml-csv, ocaml-xml-light, ocaml-libvirt (this will
>> become much simpler in future):
>>
>> http://www.annexia.org/tmp/r5/
> 
> i already recompile all dependencies from fedora for the previous
> version, but while the previso version works on rhel5 this doesn't seems:
> -------------------------------------
> [root at kvm ~]# /usr/bin/virt-top --connect qemu:///system
> libvir: error : this function is not supported by the hypervisor:
> virConnectGetHostname
> Fatal error: exception Libvirt.Virterror(3, 0, _, 2, _, 0, _, _, 0, _, _, 0)
> [root at kvm ~]# rpm -q libvirt
> libvirt-0.3.2-2

You've found a real bug.  Virt-top is not very well tested against qemu, 
or rather that should be not tested at all.  But I'll go and try to make 
it work with qemu now.  Probably take a few hours though ...

> ps. and anyway the src.rpm for virt-top-0.3.2.7-1 still missing:-(

The source is inside ocaml-libvirt srpm.

Rich.

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