Problem with installing libguestfs

[hamed]

I'm trying to install libguestfs on my proxmox server.
When I try to install it using apt-get, it asks for qemu-kvm to be installed and installing qemu-kvm will mess up everything.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libguestfs0 : Depends: qemu-kvm (>= 0.13) but it is not going to be installed

Also, when I try to compile libguestfs from source, I get the following error when running 'make':

guestfish-progress.o: In function `progress_bar_set':
/root/libguestfs/libguestfs-1.18.0/fish/progress.c:274: undefined reference to `tgetnum'

Does anyone know how to install libguestfs on a proxmox box?

 

[dietmar]

libguestfs still depends on libvirt, and that is not available on PVE systems (many package conflicts)

 

[rwmj]

libguestfs still depends on libvirt, and that is not available on PVE systems (many package conflicts)

libguestfs does NOT depend on libvirt, if compiled from source.
For the original poster: Problem #1 is that you need qemu-kvm that has virtio-serial (which is true for any qemu for the last 2-3 years). You also need kernel >= 2.6.34 for the same reason.
Problem #2: You need to install libncurses5-dev and libreadline-dev, AND rerun ./configure after installing them.
Rich.

 

[hamed]

Thank you for explaining,
I'm also trying to compile libguestfs on proxmox 1.9 (debian lenny).
after running make, I get the following error:

../src/.libs/libguestfs.so: undefined reference to `le64toh'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [create_disk] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/libguestfs-1.18.0/examples'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

I couldn't find which library is missing. Do you have any idea about this?

 

[rwmj]

Debian Lenny (5) is far too old. You need to use Debian 7. Debian 6 is possible, but you need to install a whole bunch of backports to make it work. See: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#binaries