[libvirt-users] [libvirt] Python-libvirt in a virtual environment.

[Sijo Jose]

I installed libvirt 1.2 tarball and then I use pip install libvirt-python
inside virtual env.. it worked..

thanks
-Sijo




On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy at gmail.com>wrote:

>   Sijo Jose wrote:
>
> > @Michel
> > using virtualenv we can create an isolated environment in the system.
> > Just go through -
> http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/dev/virtualenvs/
> > @Eric
> > I'm using Ubuntu, and I was able to install and use libvirt using sudo
> > apt-get install python-libvirt but its not available in tg2 virtual
> > environment.
> >
> > Moreover if you try to install in the virtualenv using the sudo apt-get
> > install python-libvirt, it would say  the package is been already
> installed.
>
> apt-get operates with system-level packages, so there's no
> difference if you run it from virtualenv or not.
>
> I think you have two options:
>
> - Install python-libvirt and create virtualenv with
>   --system-site-packages [1] so it pulls system python-libvirt
>
> - Activate virtualenv and install python-libvirt using pip
>
> 1:
> http://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/latest/virtualenv.html#the-system-site-packages-option
>
> Roman Bogorodskiy
>
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