- Berkeley DB 'db_dump' and 'db_load' utilities
(db4-utils or db4.X-util or similar) (optional)
+- systemtap/DTrace userspace probes (optional)
+ http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/AddingUserSpaceProbingToApps
+
- perldoc (pod2man, pod2text, pod2html) to generate the manual pages
and other documentation.
- FUSE libraries and kernel module (optional)
-To build virt-resize:
-
-- OCaml PCRE bindings (ocaml-pcre) (optional)
-
To build language bindings:
- Perl if you want to build the perl bindings (optional)
- perl-libintl for translating perl code (optional)
+To run virt-sysprep:
+
+- virt-sysprep requires FUSE support since it uses guestmount
+
Building
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make check
+There are some extra tests, but these require that you have some
+libvirt guests installed, that these guests' disks are accessible by
+the current user, and these tests may fail for other reasons which are
+not necessarily because of real problems. If you want to run these
+extra tests do:
+
+ make extra-tests
+
If everything works, you can install the library and tools by running
this command as root: