[libvirt] Experimental 32-bit windows libvirt installer

[arnaud.champion at devatom.fr]

?It seems your libvirt hasn't been compiled with esx support. No problem at 
all, but if you add the esx support you also need the libcurl dll.

Arnaud

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From: <arnaud.champion at devatom.fr>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 3:45 PM
To: "Justin Clift" <jclift at redhat.com>; <libvir-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [libvirt] Experimental 32-bit windows libvirt installer

> ?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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