[libvirt-users] libvirt, OSX and VirtualBox - how?

[Matthias Bolte]

2011/11/6 Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>:
> On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 06:15:12PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
>> This seems to be latest stable version - should I try 0.9.7rc2?
>>
>> Aha: 7 days ago...
>> http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=73ce5050e0dcf897a975fd077d249f42e0549c64
>
> Updating the brew formula to 0.97-rc2, I get the following build error:
>
> ...
>  CC     libvirt_driver_secret_la-secret_driver.lo
>  CC     libvirt_driver_storage_la-storage_driver.lo
>  CC     libvirt_driver_storage_la-storage_backend.lo
>  CC     libvirt_driver_storage_la-storage_backend_fs.lo
>  CC     libvirt_driver_storage_la-storage_backend_scsi.lo
>  CC     libvirt_iohelper-iohelper.o
>  CCLD   libvirt_util.la
>  CCLD   libvirt_conf.la
> /usr/bin/ranlib: file: .libs/libvirt_util.a(libvirt_util_la-bridge.o) has no symbols
> /usr/bin/ranlib: file: .libs/libvirt_util.a(libvirt_util_la-stats_linux.o) has no symbols
> ranlib:   CCLD   libvirt_cpu.la
> file: .libs/libvirt_util.a(libvirt_util_la-bridge.o) has no symbols
> ranlib: file: .libs/libvirt_util.a(libvirt_util_la-stats_linux.o) has no symbols
>  CCLD   libvirt_vmx.la
>  CCLD   libvirt_driver.la
>  CCLD   libvirt_driver_test.la
>  CCLD   libvirt-net-rpc-client.la
> /usr/bin/ranlib: file: .libs/libvirt_driver.a(libvirt_driver_la-driver.o) has no symbols
> ranlib: file: .libs/libvirt_driver.a(libvirt_driver_la-driver.o) has no symbols
>  CCLD   libvirt-net-rpc-server.la
>  CCLD   libvirt-net-rpc.la
>  CCLD   libvirt_driver_vmware.la
>  CCLD   libvirt_driver_vbox.la
>  CCLD   libvirt_driver_security.la
>  CCLD   libvirt_driver_secret.la
>  CCLD   libvirt_driver_storage.la
>  CCLD   libvirt_iohelper
>  CCLD   libvirt_driver_remote.la
> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>  "_ptsname_r", referenced from:
>      _virFileOpenTty in libvirt_util.a(libvirt_util_la-util.o)

This is a known problem and there is already a patch proposed for this.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-November/msg00244.html

It's not in git yet, but will make it into libvirt 0.9.7 final.

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Matthias Bolte
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