libivrt client using python on windows

[Michal Privoznik]

On 10/12/20 9:47 PM, Talha Jawaid wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to run a python script on Windows to remotely control libvirt 
> running on a (Linux) server. This was all working fine while prototyping 
> stuff on the server but now I am having some trouble installing the 
> python module on windows (“pip install” fails). I struggled through 
> getting it to COMPILE but then ran into linking issues. Seems like the 
> actual libvirt library is needed to run (and even compile) on Windows? 
> Is there a prebuilt package somewhere that I could get? Do I really need 
> the whole libvirt library or is there a client only package? How could I 
> go about accomplishing my goal here?

Hey,

libvirt-python is really just a tiny wrapper over our C APIs so yes, you 
need libvirt library for python bindings. But fear not, libvirt library 
for Windows contains the remote driver you need. I'm not sure if there 
is an official built provided by libvirt upstream community, but Fedora 
does mingw builts from which you can extract the .dll. For instance this 
seems to contain libvirt.dll:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1590426

Michal