[libvirt] libvirt compiles on RISC-V (RV64G)

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2016-10-26 at 16:47 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > I'm happy to announce that libvirt compiles fine from git on
> > > Fedora/RISC-V.  This has little or no practical value at all, since
> > > RISC-V lacks such essentials such as virtualization, qemu etc.
> > > However I suppose you could use it as a remote client.
> > 
> > Did you actually try connecting to a remote libvirtd instance
> > from the RISC-V machine?
> 
> No, the qemu emulation has no networking (real hardware will of course
> have networking).

Fair enough :)

> > Does the test suite pass?
> 
> I didn't try it.

I realized the test suite is run as part of the RPM build,
so if the RPM build succeeded it means the test suite must
have passed! Yay! \o/

> It's not massively important that libvirt actually
> works until the hypervisor specification is sorted out, and real
> hardware is widely available.  Mainly the team want libvirt in order
> just to satify deps required to build other packages.

I assume packages that depend or build-depend on libvirt
actually care about libvirt working :) You don't want to
end up with a bunch of fully built packages that crash
horribly the second you start using them ;)

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization