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<h1>Downloads</h1>
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<h2><a name="releases">Official Releases</a></h2>
<p>
The latest versions of the libvirt C library can be downloaded from:
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/">libvirt.org FTP server</a></li>
<li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/">libvirt.org HTTP server</a></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="hourly">Hourly development snapshots</a></h2>
<p>
Once an hour, an automated snapshot is made from the git server
source tree. These snapshots should be usable, but we make no guarantees
about their stability:
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz">libvirt.org FTP server</a></li>
<li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz">libvirt.org HTTP server</a></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="git">GIT source repository</a></h2>
<p>
Libvirt code source is now maintained in a <a href="http://git-scm.com/">git</a>
repository available on <a href="http://libvirt.org/git/">libvirt.org</a>:
</p>
<pre>
git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt.git</pre>
<p>
It can also be browsed at:
</p>
<pre>
<a href="http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=summary">http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=summary</a></pre>
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<h1>libvirt Application Development Guide</h1>
<p>
The guide is both a learning tool for developing with libvirt and an
API reference document. It is a work in progress, composed by a
professional author from contributions written by members of the
libvirt team.
</p>
<p>
Contributions to the guide are <b>VERY</b> welcome. If you'd like to get
your name on this and demonstrate your virtualisation prowess, a solid
contribution to the content here will do it. :)
</p>
<h2><a name="appdevpdf">Application Development Guide PDF</a></h2>
<p>
PDF download is available here:
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://libvirt.org/guide/pdf/Application_Development_Guide.pdf">libvirt App Dev Guide</a> (PDF)</li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="appdevgit">Application Development Guide source GIT repository</a></h2>
<p>
The source is also in a git repository:
</p>
<pre>
git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt-appdev-guide.git</pre>
<p>
Browsable at:
</p>
<pre>
<a href="http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-appdev-guide.git;a=summary">http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-appdev-guide.git;a=summary</a></pre>
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<h1><a name="installation">libvirt Installation</a></h1>
<h2><a name="Compilatio">Compiling a release tarball</a></h2>
<p>
libvirt uses the standard configure/make/install steps:
</p>
<pre>
gunzip -c libvirt-xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd libvirt-xxxx
./configure --help</pre>
<p>
To see the options, then the compilation/installation proper:
</p>
<pre>
./configure [possible options]
make
make install</pre>
<p>
At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or a similar utility to
update your list of installed shared libs.
</p>
<h2><a name="build">Building from a GIT checkout</a></h2>
<p>
The libvirt build process uses GNU autotools, so after obtaining a
checkout it is necessary to generate the configure script and Makefile.in
templates using the <code>autogen.sh</code> command, passing the extra
arguments as for configure. As an example, to do a complete build and
install it into your home directory run:
</p>
<pre>
./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/usr --enable-compile-warnings=error
make
make install</pre>
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