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-libvirt is released under the GNU Lesser - General Public License, see the file COPYING.LIB in the distribution - for the precise wording. The only library that libvirt depends upon is - the Xen store access library which is also licenced under the LGPL.
-Yes. The LGPL allows you to embed libvirt into a proprietary - application. It would be graceful to send-back bug fixes and improvements - as patches for possible incorporation in the main development tree. It - will decrease your maintenance costs anyway if you do so.
-The original distribution comes from ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/.
-The most generic solution is to re-fetch the latest src.rpm , and - rebuild it locally with
-rpm --rebuild libvirt-xxx.src.rpm.
If everything goes well it will generate two binary rpm packages (one - providing the shared libs and virsh, and the other one, the -devel - package, providing includes, static libraries and scripts needed to build - applications with libvirt that you can install locally.
-One can also rebuild the RPMs from a tarball:
-
- rpmbuild -ta libdir-xxx.tar.gz
-
Or from a configured tree with:
-
- make rpm
-
Large parts of the API may only be accessible with root privileges, - however the read only access to the xenstore data doesnot have to be - forbidden to user, at least for monitoring purposes. If "virsh dominfo" - fails to run as an user, change the mode of the xenstore read-only socket - with:
-
- chmod 666 /var/run/xenstored/socket_ro
-
and also make sure that the Xen Daemon is running correctly with local
- HTTP server enabled, this is defined in
- /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp which need the following line to be
- enabled:
- (xend-http-server yes)
-
If needed restart the xend daemon after making the change with the - following command run as root:
-
- service xend restart
-
As most UNIX libraries libvirt follows the "standard":
-
- gunzip -c libvirt-xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -
-
- cd libvirt-xxxx
-
- ./configure --help
-
to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper
-
- ./configure [possible options]
-
- make
-
- make install
-
At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or a similar utility to - update your list of installed shared libs.
-Libvirt requires libxenstore, which is usually provided by the xen - packages as well as the public headers to compile against libxenstore.
-The configure script (and other Makefiles) are generated. Use the - autogen.sh script to regenerate the configure script and Makefiles, - like:
-
- ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --disable-shared
-
To simplify the process of reusing the library, libvirt comes with - pkgconfig support, which can be used directly from autoconf support or - via the pkg-config command line tool, like:
-
- pkg-config libvirt --libs
-
As most UNIX libraries libvirt follows the "standard":
+
+ gunzip -c libvirt-xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -
+
+ cd libvirt-xxxx
+
+ ./configure --help
+
to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper
+
+ ./configure [possible options]
+
+ make
+
+ make install
+
At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or a similar utility to + update your list of installed shared libs.
+ +The libvirt build process uses GNU autotools, so after obtaining a checkout it is necessary to generate the configure script and Makefile.in diff --git a/docs/search.php b/docs/search.php index a6c1defd64..bbd652aab6 100644 --- a/docs/search.php +++ b/docs/search.php @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@