Hi Arslan, 
Welcome to the club! It was not long time back when I got introduced with 
Libvirt and was wondering about same stuff myself, just sharing the way I 
worked it out: 1. Understand libvirt architecture and its basic components. I 
strongly believe this step once done properly builds a sound      understanding 
of basics and helps alot in the long run. Please refer to 
http://libvirt.org/docs.html and links under this      section to get a breif 
introduction of Libvirt Architecture, a quick reference to API documentation 
etc.2. System setup:     I created a workspace to store my libvirt files, this 
can be done as:     1.1.  git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt.git (this will 
get you the latest git repo code)     1.2.  Once downloaded I would highly 
recommend reading README-hacking file to get familiar with how to build libvirt 
              and other finer details.3. Once I had libvirt installed on my 
system, I wrote a small test module (I call it testvirt), which is nothing but 
a C binary     that accepts user options and calls internal APIs (such as 
connect to a hypervisor which in my case was ESXi, dump     domain XML etc.). 
This module helped me getting familiar with libvirt code, debug it to 
understand the flow of the code     as well as test the modules that I have 
tried so far. 4. Lastly, once you have made changes to libvirt code as per your 
project, please refer to HACKING file under the root      directory to get 
familiar with steps needed to submit your patch to the community. Hope above 
steps will be of some help to you and would get you started with Libvirt :-). 
Thanks!Ata Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 04:14:17 +0500
From: animecraz...@gmail.com
To: libvir-list@redhat.com
Subject: [libvirt] Some help in Starting up

Hi everyone!
I hope you bear with me, and I would be grateful for that, as I am very new to 
all this...
I want to develop for libvirt and want to specifically work on it for the 
VirtualBox domain. The problem is I have no idea how to set up my development 
environment... I have a ubuntu 64 bit machine with me, with The latest Virtual 
box installed (from the official site), and git already installed. 

Now what am I suposed to do? get libvirt code from the git repository? if that 
is so then what would be the next step?
-- 
Regards,Arslan Waqar.



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