libvirt users - Feb 2022 - libvirtd daemon missing in LFS

Hi,

There was some issue with pkg-config-path. I have fixed it. I see that it
looks for wireshark and other dependencies. I get an error saying "remote
driver is required for libvirtd daemon". I am not sure what this error
means. Does it mean that I have to install wireshark or is it looking for
something else. Could you please help me out here.

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 9:57 AM Sai Kiran Kumar Reddy <skiran at
cimware.in>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your inputs. I have compiled with -Ddriver_libvirtd=enabled
> option. As you have mentioned, it shows missing dependencies. Let me
> install them and try to get libvirtd up and running.
>
> Once again, thanks for your help.
>
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 5:24 PM Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>
wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 16:34:43 +0530, Sai Kiran Kumar Reddy wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am Sai Kiran. I am trying to build libvirt from source on my
Linux
>> From
>> > Scratch(LFS) system. I have successfully installed libvirt and its
>> > dependencies. When I start virt-manager, there is a prompt in GUI
saying
>> > that "libvirtd service is not installed".  I also do not
see any
>> libvirtd
>> > in my system. I would like to install the libvirtd service(build
from
>> > source). But I am not able to find the source code for it and
also, I am
>> > not sure about the build process for the daemon. Could you please
help
>> me
>> > out here.
>>
>> The libvirt daemon is integral part of the libvirt project so the
>> sources you used to build the library also contain the daemon sources.
>>
>> In your instance it's most likely that you are missing a dependancy
and
>> libvirtd was not auto-enabled. To force-enable it configure libvirt
with
>>
>>  '-Ddriver_libvirtd=enabled'
>>
>> which should report what you are missing. Since you are using LFS you
>> need to ensure that you have all deps yourself.
>>
>>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Sai Kiran.
>

-- 
Regards,
Sai Kiran.
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 11:39:17 +0530, Sai Kiran Kumar Reddy
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There was some issue with pkg-config-path. I have fixed it. I see that it
> looks for wireshark and other dependencies. I get an error saying
"remote
> driver is required for libvirtd daemon". I am not sure what this error
So you are missing some of the dependencies needed by the remote driver
which is needed for the libvirtd daemon. Similarly to what I've
suggested before can be used for any other option.

To list full configuration of the project along with options that were
selected you can run 'meson configure' from the builddir and it will
print all options:

$ meson configure

[... snipped ... ]

  Project options            Current Value                Possible Values       
Description
  ---------------            -------------                ---------------       
-----------
  apparmor                   auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    apparmor support
  apparmor_profiles          auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    install apparmor profiles
  attr                       auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    attr support
  audit                      auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    audit support
  bash_completion            auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    bash-completion support
  bash_completion_dir                                                           
directory containing bash completion scripts
  blkid                      auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    blkid support
  capng                      auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    cap-ng support
  ch_group                                                                      
groupname to run Cloud-Hypervisor system instance as
  ch_user                                                                       
username to run Cloud-Hypervisor system instance as
  chrdev_lock_files                                                             
location for UUCP style lock files for character devices
                                                                                
(leave empty for default paths on some platforms)
  curl                       auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    curl support
  docdir                                                                        
documentation installation directory
  docs                       auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    whether to generate documentation
  driver_bhyve               auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    bhyve driver
  driver_ch                  auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    Cloud-Hypervisor driver
  driver_esx                 auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    esx driver
  driver_hyperv              auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    Hyper-V driver
  driver_interface           auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    host interface driver
  driver_libvirtd            auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    libvirtd driver
  driver_libxl               auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    libxenlight driver
  driver_lxc                 auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    Linux Container driver
  driver_network             auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    virtual network driver
  driver_openvz              auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    OpenVZ driver
  driver_qemu                auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    QEMU/KVM driver
  driver_remote              auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    remote driver
  driver_secrets             auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    local secrets management driver
  driver_test                auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    test driver
  driver_vbox                auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    VirtualBox XPCOMC driver
  driver_vmware              auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    VMware driver
  driver_vz                  auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    Virtuozzo driver
  dtrace                     auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    use dtrace for static probing
  expensive_tests            auto                         [enabled, disabled,
auto]    set the default for enabling expensive tests (long

[...]

> means. Does it mean that I have to install wireshark or is it looking for
No wireshark is optional, only if you want to build the dissector for
the libvirt protocol as plugin into wireshark.
> something else. Could you please help me out here.
So you want -D driver_remote=enabled and -D wireshark_dissector=disabled

make sure to consult all of the options you might want.