Building qemu & libvirt from scratch...
Posted on Tue 04 December 2012 in Linux • 2 min read
Pre-requirements
git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git
git clone git://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi.git
http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-1.0.0.tar.gz (4/12/12)
aptitude install libvdeplug2 libvdeplug2-dev libaio1 libaio-dev libcap-dev libattr1-dev libsdl-dev libxml2-dev
Building
libiscsi:
./autogen.sh
./configure
make && make install
qemu:
./configure --enable-kvm --enable-vde --enable-virtfs --enable-linux-aio --enable-libiscsi --enable-sdl --target-list=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu,i386-linux-user,x86_64-linux-user --audio-drv-list=alsa
make && make install
(maybe you should build libvirt with python \< v3.2)
./configure
[...]
configure: Drivers
configure:
configure: Xen: no
configure: QEMU: yes
configure: UML: yes
configure: OpenVZ: yes
configure: VMware: yes
configure: VBox: yes
configure: XenAPI: no
configure: xenlight: no
configure: LXC: yes
configure: PHYP: yes
configure: ESX: yes
configure: Hyper-V: no
configure: Parallels: yes
configure: Test: yes
configure: Remote: yes
configure: Network: yes
configure: Libvirtd: yes
configure: Interface: yes
configure: macvtap: yes
configure: virtport: yes
[...]
configure: Storage Drivers
configure:
configure: Dir: yes
configure: FS: yes
configure: NetFS: yes
configure: LVM: yes
configure: iSCSI: yes
configure: SCSI: yes
configure: mpath: yes
configure: Disk: no
configure: RBD: no
configure: Sheepdog: no
[...]
configure: Libraries
configure:
configure: libxml: -I/usr/include/libxml2 -lxml2
configure: dlopen: -ldl
configure: libcurl: -DCURL_DISABLE_TYPECHECK -lcurl
configure: openwsman: no
configure: libssh2: -lssh2
configure: gnutls: -I/usr/include/p11-kit-1 -lgnutls -lgcrypt
configure: sasl: -lsasl2
configure: yajl: -lyajl
configure: sanlock: no
configure: firewalld: yes
configure: avahi: no
configure: polkit: /usr/bin/pkcheck (version 1)
configure: audit: no
configure: selinux: no
configure: apparmor: no
configure: numactl: no
configure: capng: -lcap-ng
configure: xen: no
configure: xenapi: no
configure: xenlight: no
configure: hal: no
configure: udev: -ludev -lrt -lpciaccess
configure: netcf: no
configure: pcap: -I/usr/include -L/usr/lib64 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib64 -lpcap
configure: nl: -I/usr/include/libnl3 -I/usr/include/libnl3 -lnl-3 -lnl-route-3 -lnl-3
configure: mscom: no
configure: xdr:
configure: rbd: no
[...]
make && make install
If you getting errors like this one
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/rmichel/src/libvirt-1.0.0/python'
GEN generator.py.stamp
File "./generator.py", line 21
print "test"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
make[3]: *** [generator.py.stamp] Error 1
you are using python 3.2.x (or newer) and should switch back to python 2.7.x!
The problem is the 'print' function. In python 2.7.x the syntax is print "foobar" but in 3.x that's not valid anymore! Instead you should be use print("foobar") (which is also valid in 2.7.x) !!
Examples
qemu [...] -drive file=iscsi://10.1.1.1/iqn.storage.test/1,if=scsi,bus=0,unit=3
vde:
vde_switch -s /tmp/vdesock1 &
qemu [...] -net nic -net vde,vlan=0,sock=/tmp/vdesock1
qemu [...] -drive file=foo.img,aio=[threads|native]