[libvirt] Experimental 32-bit windows libvirt installer
arnaud.champion at devatom.fr
arnaud.champion at devatom.fr
Sun Nov 14 14:45:19 UTC 2010
?Hi Justin,
I have made a MSI/EXE installer with these libs also for my personal use. I
don't know if it can help.
I think it could be a good idea to include C# bindings in the installer, but
for that, I have to work on the GAC inscription of the bindings...
I'll take a look on your installer, and give a return.
Nice to see that anyway, I have searched for it a year ago ;)
Arnaud
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From: "Justin Clift" <jclift at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 3:18 PM
To: <libvir-list at redhat.com>
Cc: "Matthias Bolte" <matthias.bolte at googlemail.com>;
<arnaud.champion at devatom.fr>
Subject: Experimental 32-bit windows libvirt installer
> Hi all,
>
> If people have time to try out a tentative first "Libvirt Windows
> Installer", it's
> online here:
>
> http://libvirt.org/sources/win32_experimental/Libvirt-0.8.5-0.exe
>
> At the moment it includes the libvirt development headers and libraries
> for compiling against, plus the virsh shell with it's needed dependencies,
> and that's about it.
>
> It's been compiled on Windows 7 x86_64, but (in theory) might also work
> on earlier windows versions like Vista and XP. (not yet tested)
>
> A couple of notes:
>
> + This installer is _not_ production ready. More like early, early stage
> alpha. ;)
>
> + This installer just repackages the files compiled using Matthias
> Bolte's msys_setup scripting:
>
> https://github.com/photron/msys_setup
>
> + This is a .exe installer, created using NSIS. Mathias Bolte mentioned,
> it might be a better idea to use something that creates .msi files,
> which
> I kind of agree with. So, next versions will probably not be NSIS
> based,
> but no idea what they will be based upon yet.
>
> + The only connection type I've tried, and that's known to work for sure,
> is qemu+tcp://. qemu+ssh:// doesn't work on windows (at this stage),
> and qemu+tls:// (on windows) doesn't work due to a problem with
> GnuTLS.
>
> If anyone has time to look into the GnuTLS problem, that would be
> really
> helpful. :)
>
> + This version includes Python bindings, but I haven't tried/tested them.
> :)
>
> + Suggestions for what else to include are welcome. ie. other bindings
> (C#,
> what else?), and so on
>
> + The NSIS installer scripting is on github if anyone's interested:
>
> https://github.com/justinclift/nsis_libvirt_installer
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
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