[libvirt] OSX Homebrew support note ;)

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Wed Dec 21 18:00:36 UTC 2016


On Wed, 2016-12-21 at 09:55 +0000, Justin Clift wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Compiling Libvirt directly from latest git master head is now supported
> on
> OSX Homebrew.  It's as simple as:
> 
>    $ brew install --HEAD libvirt
>    ...
>    $ virsh -v
>    3.0.0
> 
> This should make development of Libvirt and related virtualisation
> things
> much easier on OSX. :)

That's fantastic news, thanks for sharing! Hopefully this
will help spot macOS-specific failures early and ensure
libvirt keeps running great on that platform :)

> The credit for this goes to Roman Bogorodskiy and Homebrew developer
> "ilovezfs" (CC-d), for adding a functional rpcgen to Homebrew so we can
> generate the needed RPC bindings during the build (previously missing).
> 
> Thanks heaps! :)

Thanks indeed!

-- 
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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