[libvirt] libvirt, FreeBSD portability inquiry

[Jason Helfman]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 08:38:58AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake:
>2011/5/12 Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am interested in porting libvirt to FreeBSD, and am curious if there may
>> be anything that may not be possible at this point in respect to the libvirt
>> source code to be aware of. Here is the log of the build of the software:
>>
>> I know it has been ported to MacOSX, and thought it could then be possible
>> with FreeBSD.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>
>libvirt should be compilable on FreeBSD. At least it was in this state
>a while ago when I've fixed some compile errors. I just check it
>again.
>
>You'll need to explicitly run
>
>./configure --without-network --without-polkit
>
>because libvirt's virtual networking code is specific to Linux bridges
>and libvirt doesn't polkit on FreeBSD yet.
>
>You'll also need this patch on top of libvirt 0.9.1
>
>https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-May/msg00831.html
>
>Then it compiles for me. There are still several warnings about NULL
>format strings and devname shadowing a global symbol.
>
>Maybe Eric knows if this warning is critical:
>
>util/sexpr.c: In function 'sexpr2string':
>util/sexpr.c:250: warning: null format string [-Wformat]
>
>virSexprError(VIR_ERR_SEXPR_SERIAL, NULL);
>
>So aside from possible simple compile errors you'll need to port at
>least the virtual networking to FreeBSD when you want to run QEMU
>using libvirt on FreeBSD. If you just want to support the libvirt
>client side to use libvirt to control a hypervisor running on a
>non-FreeBSD host then you're already there.
>
>Matthias
>

Here is the port: http://jgh.devio.us/files/libvirt.shar.txt

Anyone have any thoughts on it, or can report success on it?

download the txt file
run sh ./libvirt.shar.txt
cd libvirt
make install

Thanks,
Jason

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