[libvirt] 0.9.11 rc2, FreeBSD

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:10:38PM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:48:11PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange thus spake:
> >>>>http://lorie.secnap.net/tb/index.php?action=display_markup_log&build=9-jgh_AMD64&id=1289
> >>>>http://lorie.secnap.net/tb/index.php?action=display_markup_log&build=9-jgh_I386&id=1289
> >
> >The test suite doesn't depend on anything that the main code doesn't
> >already require. So you should be able to just run 'make check' and
> >it'll compile & run the tests.
> >
> >Of course reality may differ from theory :-)
> 
> I've enabled testing, now, if you want to take a look at the above urls.
> Any comments?
> >
> >>>I'd hope to should pass, and would be interested in any failures
> 
> Let me know if you would like to see anything more here.
> >>>
> >>>
> >I strongly expect that the QEMU driver has a large number of Linux-isms
> >in it. That said, I also expect all the Linux-isms to be solveable. So
> >my recommendation is probably to enable it, then insert enough #ifdef's
> >to get just the basics compiling. Then post the #ifdef details to the
> >list so we can figure out an optimal way to handle the Linux-isms long
> >term, and make suggestions on how to provide BSD alternative impls.
> >
> >The kernel-headers check is an example of a Linux-ism we should look
> >to solve.
> 
> I agree with removing the Linux-ism's, as it will only make it more
> portable. Do you have an example of header files that I should be looking
> for?

Here are two obvious candidates:

$ grep linux/ src/qemu/qemu*.c
src/qemu/qemu_driver.c:# include <linux/kvm.h>
src/qemu/qemu_driver.c:/* add definitions missing in older linux/kvm.h */
src/qemu/qemu_process.c:#include <linux/capability.h>


Regards,
Daniel
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