[Libvir] libvirt on OS X Leopard 10.5.1

[Schley Andrew Kutz]

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Ah, I knew hyper was 64-bit, but it has no definition on OS X. I  
thought that long on OS X 10.5.1 was 64 bits in width -- my mistake.

> There wre two bugs in the remoteAuthenticate method in libvirt 0.4.0  
> which
> can cause crashes. I'd recommend testing again with libvirt from the  
> latest
> CVS checkout - its pretty likely that'll fix your problem.

The funny thing is that I have all auth mechanisms turned off in  
libvirtd. But I can see how some of the library's init code may be  
failing. I did try to build the package from HEAD, but that failed. I  
will try again and report the errors.

Thanks!

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On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 04:50:29PM -0600, Schley Andrew Kutz wrote:
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>> I spent the weekend attempting to get libvirt working on OS X Leopard
>> 10.5.1. I was able to get it to compile, but not connect to libvirtd
>> running on either my KVM or Xen servers. Here are the instructions  
>> for
>> getting it to compile:
>>
>> 1. Download libvirt-0.4.0 from the mirrors.
>>
>> 2. Use macports to install pkgconfig and gnutls
>>
>> 3. Configure your source:
>>
>> ./configure --without-xen --without-qemu
>>
>> 4. Replace instances of 'hyper' in qemu/remote_protocol.x with 'long'
>> and then follow the instructions on http://libvirt.org/windows.html  
>> to
>> regen XDR structures.
>
> This is going to fail big time. 'hyper' is 64-bit in size, where
> as long is 32-bit. Any RPC calls which user hyper will crash and
> burn if you make this change.
>
> What errors do you get if you don't make this change ? There may
> be better ways to provide compatability.
>
>> 10. The sources should now build and install.
>>
>> At this point any attempt to connect to a remote host results in the
>> thread dying and OS X catching the exception with the following  
>> report:
>>
>> <beginReport>
>> Process:         Python [57356]
>> Path:            /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ 
>> Versions/
>> 2.5/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
>> Identifier:      Python
>> Version:         ??? (???)
>> Code Type:       X86 (Native)
>> Parent Process:  bash [59098]
>>
>> Date/Time:       2008-01-21 16:48:52.228 -0600
>> OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B18)
>> Report Version:  6
>>
>> Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
>> Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000004
>> Crashed Thread:  0
>>
>> Thread 0 Crashed:
>> 0   libvirt.0.dylib               	0x00412911 remoteAuthenticate +
>> 1345 (remote_internal.c:3062)
>
> There wre two bugs in the remoteAuthenticate method in libvirt 0.4.0  
> which
> can cause crashes. I'd recommend testing again with libvirt from the  
> latest
> CVS checkout - its pretty likely that'll fix your problem.
>
> Regards,
> Dan.
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