Deployment
Pre-packaged releases ¶
The libvirt API is now available in all major Linux distributions,
so the simplest deployment approach is to use your distributions'
package management software to install the libvirt
module.
Self-built releases ¶
libvirt uses GNU autotools for its build system, so deployment
follows the usual process of configure; make ; make install
# ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr # make # make install
Built from GIT ¶
When building from GIT it is necessary to generate the autotools
support files. This requires having autoconf
,
automake
, libtool
and intltool
installed. The process can be automated with the autogen.sh
script.
# ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/usr # make # make install