Hi list, in October 2014 I began to build libvirt for IPFire. This failed the first time and second but now I tried it the third time with a lot more knowledge and it works well.
So I have a running libvirt daemon on my IPFire (Arch is x86_64 works very well by the way) and want to ask if the project is interested that the libvirt package becomes an official addon. It could save a lot of work because everybody have the chance to install what he want in a virtual machine. Also, I think it is safer to put my owncloud into a virtual machine than to put is directly on my IPFire. Also, it could save energy because a home user has to run only one real computer. Otherwise, libvirt is one more security risk and it is possible to break out of a virtual machine and attack the host. So these are some security aspects, but in the moment, I think there are more benefits than disadvantages. But I would like to hear your opinions on this topic.
So what are the dependencies for libvirt and what have to be done on existing packages.
Hard dependencies
util-macros libpciaccess libyajl
nice to have ( increase the usability)
opus python-six python-pyparsing spice-protocol spice
These packages provide a protocol similar to vnc (http://www.spice-space.org/)
optional ( create errors on start up but nothing more)
pm-utils dmidecode
what have to be done on existing addons
nmap: update to the latest version (to have a ncat version which supports the -U options, this is required to communicate over a normal ssh session)
ebtables: create some links (libvirt search in the wrong directory for the binaries)
dnsmasq enable HAVE_DHCP HAVE_SCRIPT HAVE_TFTP but I have to check this again on i686 HAVE_SCRIPT is enough, in the moment I have not the time to test where the problem is, but I will do this in the next weeks.
So that is it. Now I am waiting for your opinion and what you think about this :-).
Regards Jonatan
Ps. I would maintain these packages if they become official packages. PSS. I use a new e-mail address because my old one is currently blocked by this server.