[CC-ing to libguestfs mailing list] You might want to try building from the tarballs. You won't need OCaml to build from the tarballs (although that is available for Mac OS X, see: http://godi.camlcity.org/). If you want to see how we build for Fedora, see: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/libguestfs/libguestfs.spec?view... If building from git, make sure you start with the ./bootstrap script, otherwise you won't get gnulib. Generally to build from git (from a fresh clone) you would do: ./bootstrap ./autogen.sh [any configure args] make Also you'll probably want to disable the appliance/ and daemon/ directories since you will need to copy an appliance and daemon over from (eg) a Fedora or Debian box. Just remove those directories from SUBDIRS in Makefile.am. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v