[libvirt] No VirtualBox Driver

[Peter Krempa]

On 12/17/12 13:30, Arslan Waqar wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com
> <mailto:pkrempa at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     On 12/17/12 09:07, Arslan Waqar wrote:
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>         Hey Peter,
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>         On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Peter Krempa
>         <pkrempa at redhat.com <mailto:pkrempa at redhat.com>
>         <mailto:pkrempa at redhat.com <mailto:pkrempa at redhat.com>>> wrote:
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>              On 12/17/12 07:40, Arslan Waqar wrote:
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>                  Hi all,
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>              Hi Arslan,
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>                  I am new to the group and hence there might be a chance
>         I might be
>                  asking a simple question...
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>                  The thing is I compiled and installed libvirt from git.
>         Then in my
>                  terminal window I started virsh. It started. Then since
>         I had
>                  Virtual
>                  Box installed on my machine I ran "connect
>         vbox:///session".
>                  Once I did
>                  this I got two errors which said:
>                  error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor
>                  error: internal error unable to initialize VirtualBox
>         driver API
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>              What version of VirtualBox are you using? The support for
>         Vbox 4.2
>              wasn't committed yet to the tree as it lacks feedback from the
>              users. If you have VirtualBox 4.2 and are willing to test the
>              patches for that it would be really helpful.
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>                  I am unable to resolve this issue...Any input is welcome!
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>                  Thanks!
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>                  --
>                  Regards,
>                  Arslan Waqar.
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>              Peter
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>         I do have Virtual Box 4.2 and I am willing to test ... So please
>         do send
>         me instructions on how to get going. If there are any specific
>         use cases
>         which need to be testet then do send them to me... (BTW, I have some
>         important VMs on VirtualBox, should I be worried about them
>         while testing?)
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>     As you are using the git version it's pretty simple:
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>     You need to fetch the branch containing the patches:
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>     git fetch git://git.pipo.sk/libvirt.git
>     <http://git.pipo.sk/libvirt.git> virtualbox-4.2
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>     and then create a new branch from FETCH_HEAD:
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>     git checkout -b virtualbox-4.2 FETCH_HEAD
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>     and then you need to compile it again. Make sure that the summary
>     after configure ends lists the virtualbox driver.
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>         Also while installing I got the errors related to xhtml1-dtds
>         ... I read
>         quite a lot on it on
>         http://www.redhat.com/__archives/libvir-list/2009-__November/msg00430.html
>         <http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-November/msg00430.html>
>         and turns out this problem is not present in Fedora, it occurs
>         in Ubuntu
>         almost every time, because ubuntu does not have xhtml1-dtds package.
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>     Hm, there's a possibility that the package is named differently in
>     debian based distros.
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>         Now, because of this will I face any problem? if so then what
>         exactly,
>         and how to solve it...Also is there a workaround for it...?
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>     The inability to verify the DTDs shouldn't be fatal. Anyways, you
>     don't really need to do make install from the git tree. You can run
>     libvirt directly from the repo after it's built
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>         --
>         Regards,
>         Arslan Waqar.
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> I tried to to fetch the Virtual Box 4.2 drivers code branch by running
> this command in terminal:
> git fetch git://git.pipo.sk/libvirt.git
> <http://git.pipo.sk/libvirt.git> virtualbox-4.2
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> I got the following error:
> fatal: remote error: access denied or repository not exported: /libvirt.git
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> Apparently I cant access it... do I need to do some account verification
> or something...?

My git server is probably misconfigured. I'll have a look and try to fix it.

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> Also I have searched almost everywhere and still haven't found a
> workaround for the xhtml1-dtds package ... If some one is using Ubuntu
> for libvirt development then kindly advise me a Ubuntu/Debian equivalent
> package for xhtml1-dtds package ....
>
> --
> Regards,
> Arslan Waqar.
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