On 5/8/21 6:37 pm, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 11:13:06 +0800, Brad wrote in message > <184151f6-16e3-f59c-1d07-47394f30f...@fnarfbargle.com>: > >> On 5/8/21 4:40 am, AP wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> first I thank all DEVUAN people for the pure pleasure of running my >>> system (since ASCII 2018) without a bloatware. >>> >>> This is my first message and I am sorry, that my search did not >>> give me the answer about: >>> >>> maintenance of the libvirt package without X11 and DBus >>> >>> Question: is there a way to get the package for libvirt + QEMU/KVM >>> for headless VMs - when no X, no DBus needed? >> >> You can always compile it yourself. I've just checked and I'm still >> running a self-compiled v4 on my main box. Certainly in the v5.6.0 >> code I just looked at there's an option to disable dbus. >> >> From memory I stopped upgrading when they migrated away from >> autoconf and make. The redhat-isms were just making it too hard to >> build on older stable debian-based systems, so I stuck with V4. These >> days it'd be easy enough to use the packaged versions I suppose. >> >> Brad > > ..any of you guys wanting to package what you have running? > To me, this sounds like a viable basis for the bare metal > hypervisor idea in the "[DNG] Devuan as a hypervisor?" thread. >
Nope. I did it because I needed to if I wanted the bits "I needed" from libvirt on a Debian version that was pre-jessie. I still built with dbus, I just had to also build the right version of dbus. If I was starting from scratch now, I'd install Devuan Beowulf and apt-get install libvirt. I don't get hung up on dependencies and I'm too lazy to want to expunge dbus just because I don't understand it and I'm paranoid (I do and I'm not). I'm still running my self-compiled libvirt because I've progressively upgraded from Debian Wheezy (which is what I compiled it on) to Devuan Jessie->Ascii->Beowulf and it hasn't broken. Because it hasn't broken, I haven't fixed it. It still lives (with all its dependencies) in /usr/local/libvirt. Brad _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
