Run Cygwin setup.exe. When it starts up it will show a dialog like this:
Step through the setup program accepting defaults or making choices as appropriate, until you get to the screen for selecting packages:
The user interface here is very confusing. You have to click the "recycling icon" as shown by the arrow:
which takes the package (and all packages in the subtree) through several states such as "Install", "Reinstall", "Keep", "Skip", "Uninstall", etc.
You can install "All" (everything) or better select just the groups and packages needed. Select the following groups and packages for installation:
| Groups |
Archive Base Devel Editors Mingw Perl Python Shells |
|---|---|
| Packages |
openssh sunrpc ≥ 4.0-4 (see below) |
Once Cygwin has finished installing, start a Cygwin bash shell (either click on the desktop icon or look for Cygwin bash shell in the Start menu).
The very first time you start the Cygwin bash shell, you may
find you need to run the mkpasswd and mkgroup
commands in order to create /etc/passwd and
/etc/group files from Windows users. If this
is needed then a message is printed in the shell.
Note that you need to do this as Windows Administrator.
Install Cygwin sunrpc ≥ 4.0-4 package, patched to include
librpc.dll.
To do this, first check to see whether /usr/lib/librpc.dll
exists. If it does, you're good to go and can skip to the next
step.
If you don't have this file, either install the binary package sunrpc-4.0-4.tar.bz2 (just unpack it, as Administrator, in the Cygwin root directory). Or you can download the source patch and apply it by hand to the Cygwin sunrpc package (eg. using cygport).
Check out Libvirt from CVS and apply the latest Windows patch to the source.
Configure libvirt by doing:
autoreconf ./configure --without-xen --without-qemu
(The autoreconf step is probably optional).
The configure step will tell you if you have all the required parts installed. If something is missing you will need to go back through Cygwin setup and install it.
Rebuild the XDR structures:
rm qemud/remote_protocol.[ch] qemud/remote_dispatch_*.h make -C qemud remote_protocol.c
Build:
make
If this step is not successful, you should post a full report including complete messages to the libvirt mailing list.
Test it. If you have access to a remote machine
running Xen or QEMU/KVM, and the libvirt daemon (libvirtd)
then you should be able to connect to it and display
domains using, eg:
src/virsh.exe -c qemu://remote/system list --all
Please read more about remote support before sending bug reports, to make sure that any problems are really Windows and not just with remote configuration / security.
You may want to install the library and programs by doing:
make install
The above steps should also build and install Python modules.
However for reasons which I don't fully understand, Python won't
look in the
non-standard /usr/local/lib/python*/site-packages/
directory by default so you may need to set the environment
variable PYTHONPATH:
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages
(Change the version number to your version of Python). You can test Python support from the command line:
python
>>> import libvirt
>>> conn = libvirt.open ("test:///default")
>>> conn.listDomainsID ()
[1]
>>> dom = conn.lookupByID (1)
>>> dom.XMLDesc (0)
"<domain type='test' id='1'> ..."
The most common failure will be with import libvirt
which usually indicates that either PYTHONPATH is
wrong or a DLL cannot be loaded.