Deployment

Pre-packaged releases

The libvirt API is now available in all major Linux distributions so the simplest deployment approach is to use your distributions' package management software to install the libvirt module.

Self-built releases

libvirt uses GNU autotools for its build system, so deployment follows the usual process of configure; make ; make install

      # ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
      # make
      # make install
    

Built from GIT

When building from GIT it is necessary to generate the autotools support files. This requires having autoconf, automake, libtool and intltool installed. The process can be automated with the autogen.sh script.

      # ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/usr
      # make
      # make install