[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#384300: libvirt packages on git.debian.org

[Guido Guenther]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:16:02PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Marco Sinhoreli wrote:
>>> # virsh connect xen:///
>>> libvir: error : could not connect to xen:///
>>> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
>>> libvir: error : could not connect to xen:///
>>> error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor
>
> xen is the default hypervisor.  Try:
>
>   virsh list --all
The problem is that simply adding the libraries isn't enough, we do have
to teach the build where to find libxenstore:
 http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-libvirt/libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=347090897d5d4984a344981a70e34cc6ba4e6d3d;hp=23d01db2113e5430144bf518d1ff819227cd92c3

Now I get:
 # virsh list --all
 Name: ��x(�1ҋ]�Ћu�}��]�������������u��t&
 2178
 Id Name                 State
----------------------------------
  0 Domain-0             running

I'm don't know what messees up the name that badly yet though. Here's
what I'm currenlty using:

libvirt from the with_xen branch:
 http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-libvirt/libvirt.git;a=shortlog;h=with_xen

Xen packges containing Richards patch to install the missing headers:
 http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-libvirt/xen-3.git;a=summary

A self build xen dom0. I simply unpacked:
 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xen-3/xen-3_3.1.2.orig.tar.gz

ran "make" and used the resulting kernel as dom0 since I couldn't find a
working dom0 working with 3.1.2 in Debian or did I miss it?

Cheers,
 -- Guido