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<?xml version="1.0"?>
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<html>
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<body>
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<h1><a name="installation">libvirt Installation</a></h1>
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<ul id="toc"></ul>
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<h2><a name="compiling">Compiling a release tarball</a></h2>
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<p>
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libvirt uses the standard configure/make/install steps:
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</p>
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<pre>
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$ gunzip -c libvirt-x.x.x.tar.gz | tar xvf -
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$ cd libvirt-x.x.x
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$ ./configure</pre>
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<p>
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The <i>configure</i> script can be given options to change its default
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behaviour.
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</p>
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<p>
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To get the complete list of the options it can take, pass it the
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<i>--help</i> option like this:
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</p>
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<pre>
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$ ./configure <i>--help</i></pre>
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<p>
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When you have determined which options you want to use (if any),
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continue the process.
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</p>
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<p>
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Note the use of <b>sudo</b> with the <i>make install</i> command
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below. Using sudo is only required when installing to a location your
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user does not have write access to. Installing to a system location
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is a good example of this.
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</p>
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<p>
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If you are installing to a location that your user <i>does</i> have write
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access to, then you can instead run the <i>make install</i> command
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without putting <b>sudo</b> before it.
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</p>
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<pre>
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$ ./configure <i>[possible options]</i>
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$ make
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$ <b>sudo</b> <i>make install</i></pre>
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<p>
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At this point you <b>may</b> have to run ldconfig or a similar utility
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to update your list of installed shared libs.
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</p>
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<h2><a name="building">Building from a GIT checkout</a></h2>
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<p>
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The libvirt build process uses GNU autotools, so after obtaining a
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checkout it is necessary to generate the configure script and Makefile.in
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templates using the <code>autogen.sh</code> command, passing the extra
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arguments as for configure. As an example, to do a complete build and
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install it into your home directory run:
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</p>
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<pre>
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$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/usr --enable-compile-warnings=error
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$ make
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$ <b>sudo</b> make install</pre>
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</body>
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</html>
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