<?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> <h1>Installation</h1> <h2> <a name="Compilatio" id="Compilatio">Compilation</a> </h2> <p>As most UNIX libraries libvirt follows the "standard":</p> <p> <code>gunzip -c libvirt-xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -</code> </p> <p> <code>cd libvirt-xxxx</code> </p> <p> <code>./configure --help</code> </p> <p>to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper</p> <p> <code>./configure [possible options]</code> </p> <p> <code>make</code> </p> <p> <code>make install</code> </p> <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 make make install </pre> </body> </html>