[libvirt] Communicating with libvirt from windows

[Adam Huffman]

On 24/08/09 11:58, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 03:47:23PM +0530, anuj rampal wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have KVM running on one of my machine and I can controle the geues OS
>> using the virt-manager and Virsh tools.
>>
>> Now what I want to do is talk to libvirt from my windows machine.
>>
>> I tried to compile libvirt for windows but couldnt get any success with
>> that.
>>      
> FYI, the remote client binary will build fine under Mingw32 using the
> following args
>
>    PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig" \
>    CC="i686-pc-mingw32-gcc" \
>    ./configure \
>      --build=i386-pc-linux \
>      --host=i686-pc-mingw32 \
>      --prefix="/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw" \
>      --without-sasl \
>      --without-avahi \
>      --without-polkit \
>      --without-python \
>      --without-xen \
>      --without-qemu \
>      --without-lxc \
>      --without-uml \
>      --without-vbox \
>      --without-openvz \
>      --without-one \
>      --without-phyp \
>      --without-netcf \
>      --without-libvirtd
>
>
>    
>> Is there a way by which i can talk to libvirt without this client..??
>>      
> No, the only supported option is using the libvirt client.
>
> Daniel
>    
Slightly tangential to the original question - is there a way of 
building virt-manager under mingw32 now?

Adam