[libvirt-users] Building & Installing on OpenSolaris

[Daniel Veillard]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:40:11AM -0600, gary mazzaferro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm revisiting my libVirt install for opensolaris. I downloaded libvirt
> 0.8.0..
> 
> This is a bit embarassing, but I forgot how to build libVirt on opensolaris.
> (It's been a while)  I'm currently stuck with the configure script failing
> to find linux kernel headers.
> Error:
> "configure: error: You must install kernel-headers in order to compile
> libvirt"
> 
> Can anyone post the instructions to build under opensolaris?

  Well you need to desactivate qemu and lxc builds to avoid this error:

./configure --without-lxc --without-qemu ...

that should be done automatically on non-linux systems, it's a bug,

Daniel

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