[Users] qemu-ga /oVirt/ubuntu guest

[Yedidyah Bar David]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sven Kieske" <S.Kieske at mittwald.de>
> To: "Users at ovirt.org List" <Users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 11:02:11 AM
> Subject: [Users] qemu-ga /oVirt/ubuntu guest
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know it's a little off topic, but
> has anyone a good documentation for
> the qemu-guest-agent ?
> I'm aware of the following entry, but
> it is not helpful at all:
> 
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI/GuestAgent
> 
> I'm looking for documentation on the following
> topics:
> 
> install the guest-agent into a vm
> architecture of the guest agent
> building the guest-agent
> 
> I tried to build the whole qemu-thing
> in a ubuntu 12.04. vm running on ovirt
> but I'm not successfull.
> 
> I get the following error after invoking "make":
> 
> GEN trace/generated-tracers.c
> CC hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.o
> hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.c In function "vring_pop":
> hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.c:400:5: error: "ret" may be used
> uninitialized in this function [-Werror=uninitialized]
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> make: *** [hw/virtio/dataplane/vring.o] Error 1
> 
> I would also like to know if you are aware of any prebuild packages
> for ubuntu 12.04 (or later) or if there is documentation anywhere
> on the net for which distributions you can download a rpm/deb package.

http://www.ovirt.org/Ubuntu/GuestAgent points at:
https://launchpad.net/~zhshzhou/+archive/vdsm-ubuntu

I didn't try that myself.

Good luck,
-- 
Didi