[libvirt] Release of libvirt-0.8.7

[Laine Stump]

On 01/05/2011 06:12 AM, Zdenek Styblik wrote:
>
> What I'm trying to say is I'm not using everything from libvirt, but
> only what I actually need. Thus eg. iSCSI and NetCF support is disabled
> atm, although I wanted to look into NetCF.


Zdenek - I'd be very happy to have a Slackware port of netcf, and would 
be willing to help out getting it in (as long as you'd be willing to 
help me setup a Slackware guest so I could test your patches ;-) There 
have been 4 other people who started netcf ports (debian, arch linux, 
suse, and (believe it or not, MS Windows)), but so far none has followed 
through to actually pushing something into the main netcf git.

The main page to netcf is:

    https://fedorahosted.org/netcf

The first step would be to subscribe to the netcf-devel mailing list:

    https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/netcf-devel

It's *very* low traffic, so it won't add much to your daily mail culling.

I can help you out figuring out which bits need replacing for a 
different platform (although I'm afraid I probably can't be much help 
with what they should be replaced with :-)


> On the other hand I can say I'm pleased to see Slackware pkg at web site
> of any application if I want to try something fast(and curse man whom
> build package for dependencies I could do without :]). Yes, it sure
> could be a nice "bonus".
>
> If there are any requirements for package on what libvirt should have
> support for, let me know and I'll see what I can do about it.

Speaking of that, I don't know if you noticed, but support for IPv6 
virtual networks was added in this release. However, in order for it to 
all work properly, you need to have the following binaries installed on 
the build machine (autoconfigure finds them and etches their paths into 
the libvirtd binary):

command   package
-------   -------
ip        (iproute)
ip6tables (iptables-ipv6)
radvd     (radvd)

and of course a couple that were already required:

iptables  (iptables)
dnsmasq   (dnsmasq)

ip, iptables, and dnsmasq are required (on the build machine as well as 
the target) for IPv4 virtual network support, and all 5 are required for 
IPv6.


> As for 'Downloads' page ~ since this is only package, I'm not sure if it
> is worth of bother at all ;) Links(information) can be found in mailing
> list archives(via search engines). Dunno.

Searching sometimes leads to lots of useless junk that you have to sift 
through to find what you're looking for, and the source of any links is 
often (at least should be considered!) questionable. Putting a link on 
the Downloads page of the official project site gives it an extra bit of 
legitimacy that will give people a warm fuzzy feeling when they install 
:-) But of course, the link needs to always have something at its other 
end. So if those links are there to stay, then I'd say add them to the 
Downloads page for libvirt (assuming we can trust you to not put a 
trojan in the binary! :-)