[libvirt] Setup libvirt deveplopment environment

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Thomas Lin <thomaslin31 at gmail.com> wrote:
> How to setup libvirt development environment on Ubuntu 12.04? I use
> virt-manager right now. It already installed virsh with it. I configured
> libvirt and it all went well. So how to test my modification in source code?
> When I open ./virsh from libvirt/tools/, it give errors like cannot open
> socket. Please help, I am a newbie.

This helped me in the past:
http://aglitke.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/how-to-hack-on-a-local-copy-of-libvirt/

Stefan