[libvirt] Installing libvirt 0.8.6 Ubuntu 9.10

[Matthias Bolte]

2011/1/20 Marcela Castro León <mcastrol at gmail.com>:
> Hello
> When installing libvirt 0.8.6, I've passed ./configure, but when I execute
> make, I've got
>
>   CCLD   libvirtd
> ../src/.libs/libvirt_driver_qemu.a(libvirt_driver_qemu_la-qemu_driver.o): In
> function `qemudVPAssociatePortProfiles':
> /home/chubut/libvirt-0.8.6/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c:11881: undefined reference
> to `vpAssociatePortProfileId'
> /home/chubut/libvirt-0.8.6/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c:11898: undefined reference
> to `vpDisassociatePortProfileId'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [libvirtd] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/chubut/libvirt-0.8.6/daemon'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/chubut/libvirt-0.8.6/daemon'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chubut/libvirt-0.8.6'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> chubut at chubut:~/libvirt-0.8.6$
>

Unfortunately 0.8.6 contains this compile error on systems without
macvtap support, like Ubuntu.

You either need to backport this patch [1] to 0.8.6 or use the latest
libvirt release 0.8.7 instead.

[1] http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=474b1c1487828a17fe9e1025901334d9820ea350

Matthias