downloads.html.in

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html>
  <body>
    <h1>Downloads</h1>

    <h2>Official Releases</h2>

    <p>
      The latest versions of the libvirt C library can be downloaded from:
    </p>

    <ul>
      <li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/">libvirt.org FTP server</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/">libvirt.org HTTP server</a></li>
    </ul>

    <h2>Hourly development snapshots</h2>

    <p>
      Once an hour, an automated snapshot is made from the git server
      source tree. These snapshots should be usable, but we make no guarantees
      about their stability:
    </p>

    <ul>
      <li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz">libvirt.org FTP server</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz">libvirt.org HTTP server</a></li>
    </ul>

    <h2>GIT source repository</h2>

    <p>
      Libvirt code source is now maintained in a <a href="http://git-scm.com/">git</a>
      repository available on <a href="http://libvirt.org/git/">libvirt.org</a>:
    </p>

    <pre>
      git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt.git</pre>

    <p>
      It can also be browsed at:
    </p>

    <pre>
      <a href="http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=summary">http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=summary</a></pre>

    <br />

    <h1>libvirt Application Development Guide</h1>

    <p>
      This is both a guide to developing with libvirt, and a useful
      reference document.  It is a work in progress, contributed to by the
      members of the libvirt team and being authored by a professional
      author.
    </p>

    <p>
      Contributors to this are <b>VERY</b> welcome, so if you'd like to
      get your name in this and demonstrate your virtualisation prowess,
      contributing solidly to the content here will do it. :)
    </p>

    <h2>Downloadable PDF</h2>

    <p>
      PDF download is available here:
    </p>

    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://libvirt.org/guide/pdf/Application_Development_Guide.pdf">libvirt App Dev Guide</a> (PDF)</li>
    </ul>

    <h2>GIT source repository</h2>

    <p>
      The source is also in a git repository:
    </p>

    <pre>
      git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt-appdev-guide.git</pre>

    <p>
      Browsable at:
    </p>

    <pre>
      <a href="http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-appdev-guide.git;a=summary">http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-appdev-guide.git;a=summary</a></pre>

    <br />

    <h1>libvirt Installation</h1>

    <h2><a name="Compilatio" id="Compilatio">Compilation</a></h2>

    <p>
      libvirt uses the standard configure/make/install steps:
    </p>

    <pre>
      gunzip -c libvirt-xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -
      cd libvirt-xxxx
      ./configure --help</pre>

    <p>
      To see the options, then the compilation/installation proper:
    </p>

    <pre>
      ./configure [possible options]
      make
      make install</pre>

    <p>
      At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or a similar utility to
      update your list of installed shared libs.
    </p>

    <h2>Building from a source code checkout</h2>

    <p>
      The libvirt build process uses GNU autotools, so after obtaining a
      checkout it is necessary to generate the configure script and Makefile.in
      templates using the <code>autogen.sh</code> command, passing the extra
      arguments as for configure. As an example, to do a complete build and
      install it into your home directory run:
    </p>

    <pre>
      ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/usr --enable-compile-warnings=error
      make
      make install</pre>
  </body>
</html>