[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#526718: Bug#526718: libvirt: Please enable LXC (Linux Containers) and possibly OpenVZ support in libvirt

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:34:28PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> writes:
> > On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 11:29:46AM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> >> Now that the Linux Containers (lxc) package has made it into unstable, it
> >> would be really great if libvirt was built with support for them; the current
> >> and next versions both support using them.
> > Could you build libvirt with lxc support and verify that I works? I'd be
> > happy to enable it then. Just change the --without-lxc to --with-lxc in
> > debian/rules.
> 
> Apropos my previous report:
> 
> * src/lxc_driver.c: adds the getHostname method to the lxc driver
> Daniel Veillard [Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:34:56 +0000 (09:34 +0000)]
> 
> http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=8e4c727075c51efea855f47c471b1aa4b728245e
> 
> I guess that is a known issue, and the console method will not work
> until 0.6.3 is packaged; that includes that previous change.
> 
> I can, I suppose, try and build an 0.6.3 package myself and test it, or
> I am more than happy to pre-test an updated package if you have one.
I've uploaded 0.6.3 to unstable yesterday. You can do a:

git clone git://git.debian.org/pkg-libvirt/libvirt.git
cd libvirt
git-buildpackage --git-pristine-tar --git-upstream-branch=origin/upsgtream

to build yourself. 
Thanks for testing, I'll enable lxc with the next upload,
 -- Guido