[libvirt-users] [Spice-devel] [virt-tools-list] Is virsh supposed to work on Windows?

[Marc-André Lureau]

----- Original Message -----
> On 09/04/2013 12:53 PM, Fernando Lozano wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > Sorry for the cross-post, but I seeked help on this issue before on
> > those lists, but nobody answered. :-(
> > 
> > I'm trying to use virsh and virt-viewer on Windows.  I'm running the
> > latest binaries from http://spice-space.org/download.html, that is,
> > virt-viewer-x64-0.5.7.msi on a Windows 7 64-bits computer.
> > 
> > So far I got remote-viewer.exe to work, after some pain. But have no
> > sucess using virt-viewer.exe and virsh.exe. Are they supposed to work,
> > or am I loosing my time?
> 
> It will only work if someone interested enough submits patches.
> 
> > 
> > Even then virsh can't connect:
> > 
> > virsh # connect qemu://kvmhost/system
> > error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor
> > error: Unable to set close-on-exec flag: Success
> 
> Here, I wonder if we can't improve the situation;
> src/util/virutil.c:virSetInherit() does nothing, and its wrapper
> virSetCloseExec() should therefore always return 0, which makes it very
> suspicious - the message in src/rpc/virnetsocket.c about close-on-exec
> not working should never be reached.
> 
> What version of virsh is included in that msi?  Maybe it's just a case
> of a stale build, for something that has been fixed upstream?
> 
> But I personally have not tried to build or debug on mingw, to know if
> this is the only issue, or if you are staring at a number of other
> portability issues to resolve first.

It used to work for the basics, long time go. Then only kept the build going

To check the version, you can msiextract the msi, and lookup Program Files\VirtViewer\deps.txt:
mingw32-libvirt-0.10.2-3.fc19.noarch
mingw32-libvirt-static-0.10.2-3.fc19.noarch

cheers