[libvirt] libvirt, FreeBSD portability inquiry

[Matthias Bolte]

2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com>:
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:25:13AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake:
>>
>> 2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com>:
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 08:38:58AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake:
>>>>
>>>> 2011/5/12 Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am interested in porting libvirt to FreeBSD, and am curious if there
>>>>> may
>>>>> be anything that may not be possible at this point in respect to the
>>>>> libvirt
>>>>> source code to be aware of. Here is the log of the build of the
>>>>> software:
>>>>>
>>>>> I know it has been ported to MacOSX, and thought it could then be
>>>>> possible
>>>>> with FreeBSD.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Jason
>>>>
>>>> libvirt should be compilable on FreeBSD. At least it was in this state
>>>> a while ago when I've fixed some compile errors. I just check it
>>>> again.
>>>>
>>>> You'll need to explicitly run
>>>>
>>>> ./configure --without-network --without-polkit
>>>>
>>>> because libvirt's virtual networking code is specific to Linux bridges
>>>> and libvirt doesn't polkit on FreeBSD yet.
>>>>
>>>> You'll also need this patch on top of libvirt 0.9.1
>>>>
>>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-May/msg00831.html
>>>>
>>>> Then it compiles for me. There are still several warnings about NULL
>>>> format strings and devname shadowing a global symbol.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe Eric knows if this warning is critical:
>>>>
>>>> util/sexpr.c: In function 'sexpr2string':
>>>> util/sexpr.c:250: warning: null format string [-Wformat]
>>>>
>>>> virSexprError(VIR_ERR_SEXPR_SERIAL, NULL);
>>>>
>>>> So aside from possible simple compile errors you'll need to port at
>>>> least the virtual networking to FreeBSD when you want to run QEMU
>>>> using libvirt on FreeBSD. If you just want to support the libvirt
>>>> client side to use libvirt to control a hypervisor running on a
>>>> non-FreeBSD host then you're already there.
>>>>
>>>> Matthias
>>>>
>>>
>>> Here is the port: http://jgh.devio.us/files/libvirt.shar.txt
>>>
>>> Anyone have any thoughts on it, or can report success on it?
>>>
>>> download the txt file
>>> run sh ./libvirt.shar.txt
>>> cd libvirt
>>> make install
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jason
>>
>> I downloaded libvirt.shar.txt to /usr/src/jason/ and running make in
>> the libvirt subdirectory complains about libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz not
>> being in /usr/src/jason/libvirt/distinfo.
>>
>> I'm not really familiar with FreeBSD, did I miss something?
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>
> What happens if you run:
>
> make fetch
> make install
>
> What commands did you run to get the error? I am not having that issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason

make fetch gives the same error

Okay, so here's what I did:

mkdir -p /usr/src/foobar/jason
cd /usr/src/foobar/jason
wget http://jgh.devio.us/files/libvirt.shar.txt
sh libvirt.shar.txt

This outputs:

c - libvirt/
x - libvirt/Makefile
x - libvirt/distinfo
c - libvirt/files
x - libvirt/files/patch-src__util__command.c
x - libvirt/pkg-descr
x - libvirt/pkg-plist

Then:

cd libvirt
make fetch

This outputs:

===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
===>  License accepted by the user
=> libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz is not in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt/distinfo.
=> Either /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt/distinfo is out of date, or
=> libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz is spelled incorrectly.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt.

Matthias