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<h1>Windows support</h1>
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<p>
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Instructions for compiling and installing libvirt on Windows.
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<ul><li>
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<a href="#Windows_binaries">Binaries</a>
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<a href="#Windows_compiling">Compiling from source</a>
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<a name="Windows_binaries" id="Windows_binaries">Binaries</a>
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Binaries will be available from
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<a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/win32">the download area</a>
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(but we don't have binaries at the moment).
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<a name="Windows_compiling" id="Windows_compiling">Compiling from source</a>
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These are the steps to compile libvirt and the other
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tools from source on Windows.
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You will need:
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<ol><li> MS Windows. Microsoft makes free (as beer) versions
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of some of its operating systems available to
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<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/">MSDN subscribers</a>.
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We used Windows 2008 Server for testing, virtualized under
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Linux using KVM-53 (earlier versions of KVM and QEMU won't
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run recent versions of Windows because of lack of full ACPI
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support, so make sure you have the latest KVM).
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</li><li><a href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>'s
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<a href="http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe">setup.exe</a>.
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</li><li> A large amount of free disk space to install Cygwin.
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Make sure you have 10 GB free to install most Cygwin packages,
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although if you pare down the list of dependencies you may
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get away with much less. </li><li> A network connection for Windows, since Cygwin downloads packages
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from the net as it installs. </li><li>
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<a href="http://www.libvirt.org/downloads.html">Libvirt
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latest version from CVS</a>
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</li><li> The latest source patch from
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<a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/win32">the download area</a>. </li><li> A version of Cygwin sunrpc, patched to support building
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<code>librpc.dll</code>.
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A patch and a binary package are available from
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<a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/win32">the download area</a>. </li></ol>
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<p>
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These are the steps to take to compile libvirt from
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source on Windows:
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<ol><li>
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<p>Run Cygwin
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<a href="http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe">setup.exe</a>.
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When it starts up it will show a dialog like this:
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<img src="windows-cygwin-1.png" width="504" height="388" alt="Cygwin Net Release Setup Program" /></li><li>
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<p>Step through the setup program accepting defaults
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or making choices as appropriate, until you get to the
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screen for selecting packages:</p>
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<img src="windows-cygwin-2.png" width="505" height="388" alt="Cygwin Select Packages screen" /><p>
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The user interface here is very confusing. You have to
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click the "recycling icon" as shown by the arrow:
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<img src="windows-cygwin-3.png" width="298" height="200" alt="Cygwin Recycling Icon" /><p>
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which takes the package (and all packages in the subtree)
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through several states such as "Install", "Reinstall", "Keep",
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"Skip", "Uninstall", etc.
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</p>
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</li><li>
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<p>You can install "All" (everything) or better select
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just the groups and packages needed. Select the following
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groups and packages for installation:
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</p>
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<table><tr><th valign="top" align="right"> Groups </th><td>
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Archive <br />
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Base <br />
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Devel <br />
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Editors <br />
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Mingw <br />
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Perl <br />
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Python <br />
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Shells <br /></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" align="right"> Packages </th><td>
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openssh <br />
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sunrpc ≥ 4.0-4 (see below) <br /></td></tr></table></li><li>
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<p> Once Cygwin has finished installing, start a Cygwin bash shell
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(either click on the desktop icon or look for Cygwin bash shell
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in the Start menu). </p>
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<p> The very first time you start the Cygwin bash shell, you may
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find you need to run the <code>mkpasswd</code> and <code>mkgroup</code>
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commands in order to create <code>/etc/passwd</code> and
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<code>/etc/group</code> files from Windows users. If this
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is needed then a message is printed in the shell.
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Note that you need to do this as Windows Administrator. </p>
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</li><li>
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<p> Install Cygwin sunrpc ≥ 4.0-4 package, patched to include
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<code>librpc.dll</code>.
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To do this, first check to see whether <code>/usr/lib/librpc.dll</code>
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exists. If it does, you're good to go and can skip to the next
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step. </p>
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<p>
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If you don't have this file, either install the binary package
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<a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/win32/sunrpc-4.0-4.tar.bz2">sunrpc-4.0-4.tar.bz2</a> (just unpack it, as Administrator, in the Cygwin root directory).
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Or you can download the
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<a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/win32/sunrpc-4.0-dll.patch">source patch</a>
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and apply it by hand to the Cygwin sunrpc package (eg. using
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cygport).
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</p>
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</li><li>
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Check out
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<a href="http://www.libvirt.org/downloads.html">Libvirt from CVS</a> and
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<a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/win32">apply the latest Windows patch</a>
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to the source.
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</p>
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</li><li>
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<p> Configure libvirt by doing: </p>
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<pre>
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autoreconf
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./configure --without-xen --without-qemu
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</pre>
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<p> (The autoreconf step is probably optional). </p>
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<p> The configure step will tell you if you have all the
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required parts installed. If something is missing you
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will need to go back through Cygwin setup and install it.
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</p>
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</li><li>
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<p> Rebuild the XDR structures: </p>
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<pre>
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rm qemud/remote_protocol.[ch] qemud/remote_dispatch_*.h
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make -C qemud remote_protocol.c
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</pre>
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</li><li>
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<p> Build: </p>
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<pre>
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make
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</pre>
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<p> If this step is not successful, you should post a full
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report <i>including complete messages</i> to
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<a href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list">the
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libvirt mailing list</a>.
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</p>
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</li><li>
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<p> Test it. If you have access to a remote machine
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running Xen or QEMU/KVM, and the libvirt daemon (<code>libvirtd</code>)
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then you should be able to connect to it and display
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domains using, eg:
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</p>
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<pre>
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src/virsh.exe <a href="http://libvirt.org/uri.html">-c qemu://remote/system</a> list --all
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</pre>
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<p>
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Please read more about <a href="http://libvirt.org/remote.html">remote
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support</a> before sending bug reports, to make sure that
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any problems are really Windows and not just with remote
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configuration / security.
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</p>
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</li><li>
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<p>
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You may want to install the library and programs by doing:
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</p>
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<pre>
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make install
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</pre>
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</li><li>
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<p>
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The above steps should also build and install Python modules.
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However for reasons which I don't fully understand, Python won't
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look in the
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non-standard <code>/usr/local/lib/python*/site-packages/</code>
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directory by default so you may need to set the environment
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variable PYTHONPATH:
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</p>
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<pre>
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export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages
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</pre>
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<p>
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(Change the version number to your version of Python). You
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can test Python support from the command line:
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</p>
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<pre>
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python
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>>> import libvirt
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>>> conn = libvirt.open ("test:///default")
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>>> conn.listDomainsID ()
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[1]
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>>> dom = conn.lookupByID (1)
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>>> dom.XMLDesc (0)
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"<domain type='test' id='1'> ..."
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</pre>
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<p>
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The most common failure will be with <code>import libvirt</code>
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which usually indicates that either <code>PYTHONPATH</code> is
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wrong or a DLL cannot be loaded.
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