Re: [Libguestfs] libguestfs-1.6 on RHEL5.5 Server

In fact I did manage to get libguestfs to compile on RHEL 5, and it does so apart from two minor issues in the configure script: AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE is not supported; and the version of gettext on RHEL 5 is too old. However I realized as soon as I ran the tests why this is not going to work: the versions of qemu and (more crucially) the kernel in RHEL 5 do not have support for virtio-serial. Qemu is not so bad since you can easily upgrade it, but the kernel is quite a different matter. Therefore this is not going to work without forward-porting all the old user-network vmchannel code, and for the same reason updating libguestfs in EPEL 5 is not going to be possible. I strongly suggest using Fedora 13+ or RHEL 6. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora