[libvirt-users] Status of libvirtd on BSD/OSX?

[Mitchell Hashimoto]

Daniel,

Thank you very much. Ah, I was under the impression that libvirtd was
required to control any hypervisors (local or remote). I'm purely interested
in local access to hypervisors right now. I'm sorry I admit that my next
question is not well researched, but I figured it would be a quick answer
from someone knowledgeable: Do you know the "./configure" flags off the top
of your head to disable libvirtd and only enable VirtualBox drivers?

I'll start giving this a shot as soon as I can.

Mitchell

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:56:51AM -0700, Mitchell Hashimoto wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've done some research prior to this and the answer is clear that
> libvirtd
> > doesn't compile on BSD or OSX, but I'd like to know more details about
> this,
> > if I can have a bit of your time:
> >
> > * Are there any current efforts to get libvirtd running on BSD?
> > * What are the blockers to getting it running?
> > * My main goal is really to, at first only control VirtualBox, so
> > KVM/Xen/etc is not an issue.
> >
> > I realize that KVM and some other hypervisors obviously can't be
> supported
> > on BSD, but if I could just start by compiling libvirtd for VirtualBox on
> > BSD that would be a big win in and of itself.
>
> NB, virtualbox does not require libvirtd if you only care about local
> access. If you want remote access, then obviously it would be needed.
>
> There isn't any particular reason why libvirtd shouldn't work on any
> UNIX based OS. If there are any Linux-isms in there, they're purely
> accidental. The only platform where porting libvirtd will be hard
> is Windows. Best to just enable libvirtd and then post details of the
> compilation errors you get to the libvir-list mailing list
>
> Daniel
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