libvirt users - Sep 2013 - Re: [virt-tools-list] Is virsh supposed to work on Windows?

On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 03:30:12PM -0300, Fernando Lozano
wrote:
> >>I've pushed test builds of mingw-virt-viewer packaging libvirt
1.1.2 if you want
> >>to give them a try to see if they work better (disclaimer: I
haven't tested
> >>these installers at all).
> >Pushed to http://teuf.fedorapeople.org/virt-viewer-msi/ ;)
> 
> Thanks for providing those test binaries so quickly.
> 
> The x64 package is missing DLLs. remote-viewer works fine, but:
> 
> virsh.exe complains about missing libvirt-lcx-0.dll and doesn't starts.
You should be able to grab it from
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=460929 even though I
don't think it's really useful to build that at all on mingw.

> virt-viewer.exe complains about missing libssp-0.dll and doesn't
> starts -- this also happens with the "current" binaries from
> spice.org
Not that surprising as the goal of this installer is to provide
remote-viewer.exe, not virt-viewer.exe or virsh.exe. I'd tend to say we
should not include them in the installer as they are not working anyway
;) libssp can be found from the gcc package on
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=444834

Christophe

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On 09/06/2013 09:50 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
>>
>> virsh.exe complains about missing libvirt-lcx-0.dll and doesn't
starts.
> 
> You should be able to grab it from
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=460929 even though I
> don't think it's really useful to build that at all on mingw.
> 
Indeed - libvirt-lxc-0.dll makes NO sense at all, because lxc is a
Linux-only concept.  I'll try and figure out why the mingw spec is
attempting to compile a dll that should not be needed.

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On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 09:59:23AM -0600, Eric Blake
wrote:
> [redirecting to libvir-list for a libvirt bug]	
> 
> On 09/06/2013 09:50 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> virsh.exe complains about missing libvirt-lcx-0.dll and
doesn't starts.
> > 
> > You should be able to grab it from
> > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=460929 even
though I
> > don't think it's really useful to build that at all on mingw.
> > 
> 
> Indeed - libvirt-lxc-0.dll makes NO sense at all, because lxc is a
> Linux-only concept.  I'll try and figure out why the mingw spec is
> attempting to compile a dll that should not be needed.
But the libraries are RPC clients, so in general they can be
run anywhere. ie disabling LXC or QEMU driver in libvirtd 
does not imply that libvirt-lxc.dll and libvirt-qemu.dll should
be disabled.

Now it happens that libvirt-lxc.dll doesn't have any useful APIs
you can use on Windows yet, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't
compile it

Daniel
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Hi Cristophe,
>> virt-viewer.exe complains about missing libssp-0.dll and doesn't
>> starts -- this also happens with the "current" binaries from
>> spice.org
> Not that surprising as the goal of this installer is to provide
> remote-viewer.exe, not virt-viewer.exe or virsh.exe. I'd tend to say we
> should not include them in the installer as they are not working anyway
I agree with this, and the msi installer should be named 
remote-viewer-X.YY.msi to reflect that.

On the other side, there should be an official place for people like me, 
who are interested in testing virsh and virt-viewer (and who knows, some 
day virt-manager) on Windows, to get test binaries. There should be some 
effort on continuing the porting, not stopping on remote-viewer.


[]s, Fernando Lozano

On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 04:00:25PM -0300, Fernando Lozano
wrote:
> On the other side, there should be an official place for people like
> me, who are interested in testing virsh and virt-viewer (and who
> knows, some day virt-manager) on Windows, to get test binaries.
> There should be some effort on continuing the porting, not stopping
> on remote-viewer.
I fully agree with that, and that effort is best done by people interested
in getting such a port ;) It's actually not very hard to get Windows builds
cross compiled on linux (at least from  Fedora), I can help you get started
with that if you want, but I unfortunately can't/don't want to spend a
lot of
time on testing and debugging virsh Windows binaries :(

Christophe