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This is a follow-up to fbd6b2480a
, adding a link to the latest libvirt
package for openSUSE.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
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libvirt Installation
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====================
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.. contents::
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Installing from distribution repositories
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This is the recommended option to install libvirt. Libvirt is present in the
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package repositories of all major distributions. Installing a package from the
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package manager ensures that it's properly compiled, installed, started, and
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updated during the lifecycle of the distribution.
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For users who wish to use the most recent version, certain distributions also
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allow installing the most recent versions of virtualization packages:
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**Fedora**
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Refer to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
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**Gentoo**
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The ``app-emulation/libvirt`` is regularly updated, but newest versions are
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usually marked as testing by the ``~*`` keyword.
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**openSUSE**
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Refer to https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/libvirt
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Preparing sources
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-----------------
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Libvirt can be built both from release tarballs and from a git checkout using
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the same steps once the source code is prepared. Note that the build system
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requires that the build directory is separate from the top level source
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directory.
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By default further steps will build libvirt inside a subdirectory of the source
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tree named ``build``.
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Refer to the `downloads page <downloads.html>`__ for official tarballs and the
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git repository.
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Unpacking a source tarball
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Download a source tarball of the version you want to compile and unpack it
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using the following commands:
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::
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$ xz -dc libvirt-x.x.x.tar.xz | tar xvf -
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$ cd libvirt-x.x.x
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Git checkout
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~~~~~~~~~~~~
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A git checkout/clone is already in correct state for next steps. Just change
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your working directory to the checkout.
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Configuring the project
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-----------------------
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The libvirt build process uses the **Meson** build system. To configure for a
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build use the following command. Note that the ``build`` argument is the name
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of the build directory which will be created.
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::
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$ meson build [options]
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To get the complete list of the options run the following command:
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::
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$ meson configure
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Be aware that by default the build is configured with a local ``prefix`` path
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which will not interoperate with OS vendor provided binaries, since the UNIX
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socket paths will all be different. To produce a build that is compatible with
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normal OS vendor prefixes, use
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::
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$ meson build -Dsystem=true
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Explicitly enabling required functionality
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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By default each module of functionality of libvirtd is optionally enabled,
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meaning it will be enabled if the build environment contains the required
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dependencies.
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To ensure that your build contains the required functionality it's recommended
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to explicitly enable given modules, in which case the configure step will end
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with an error if dependencies are not present. **Example:** to build the
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libvirt project with support for the **qemu** driver use the following options:
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::
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$ meson build -Dsystem=true -Ddriver_qemu=enabled
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Notes:
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By default when the ``meson`` is run from within a GIT checkout, it will turn
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on -Werror for builds. This can be disabled with --werror=false, but this is
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not recommended.
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Please ensure that you have the appropriate minimal ``meson`` version installed
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in your build environment. The minimal version for a specific package can be
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checked in the top level ``meson.build`` file in the ``meson_version`` field.
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Compiling the sources
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---------------------
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To build the configured project run (note that ``-C build`` is a path to the
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build directory):
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::
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$ ninja -C build
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The ``build`` directory now contains the built binaries.
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Additionally you can also run the test suite:
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$ ninja -C build test
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Running compiled binaries from build directory
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----------------------------------------------
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For testing or development purposes it's usually not necessary to install the
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built binaries into your system. Instead simply run libvirt directly from the
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source tree. For example to run a privileged libvirtd instance
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::
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$ su -
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# service libvirtd stop (or systemctl stop libvirtd.service)
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# /home/to/your/checkout/build/src/libvirtd
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It is also possible to run virsh directly from the build tree using the
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./run script (which sets some environment variables):
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::
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$ pwd
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/home/to/your/checkout/build
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$ ./run ./tools/virsh ....
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**Note:** The libvirt project provides `multiple daemons <daemons.html>`__ and
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the above steps may replace only some of them with the custom compiled instances.
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In most cases this should work but keep that fact in mind.
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Installing compiled binaries
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----------------------------
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**Important:** Manual installation of libvirt is generally not recommended and
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you should prefer installation from your operating system's package repository
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or from manually built packages which are then installed using the package
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manager. Overwriting an installation of libvirt from the package manager by a
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manually compiled installation may not work properly.
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Installing the compiled binaries into the appropriate location (based on
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how the build was configured) is done by the following command:
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$ sudo ninja -C build install
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Note the use of **sudo** with the *ninja install* command. Using
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sudo is only required when installing to a location your user does not
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have write access to. Installing to a system location is a good example
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of this.
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If you are installing to a location that your user *does* have write
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access to, then you can instead run the *ninja install* command without
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putting **sudo** before it.
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After installation you you **may** have to run ``ldconfig`` or a similar
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utility to update your list of installed shared libs, or adjust the paths where
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the system looks for binaries and shared libraries.
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The libvirt project provides `multiple daemons <daemons.html>`__ based on your
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configuration. You have to ensure that you start the appropriate processes for
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the freshly installed libvirt to be usable (e.g. even monolithic ``libvirtd``
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requires in most configurations that ``virtlogd`` is started).
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