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Upgrade LIBVIRT to 1.0.0 compiled (experimental)

Initial deployment (see Deploy KVM + Open vSwitch + iSCSI + Ubuntu 12.04 x64)

Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64)
libvirt 0.9.8 (from package)
ovs_version: “1.4.0+build0” (from package)

Download souce code

# wget http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-1.0.0.tar.gz
# tar -xvzf libvirt-1.0.0.tar.gz

Install extra packages

# apt-get install libxml2-dev libgnutls-dev libyajl-dev libnl-dev pkg-config libdevmapper-dev python-dev

Compile

# ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --with-esx=no
# make
# make install

Edit libvirtd config

# diff /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf.ORI

< unix_sock_group = "libvirtd"
---
> #unix_sock_group = "libvirt"

< unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770"
---
> #unix_sock_rw_perms = "0770"

< auth_unix_ro = "none"
---
> #auth_unix_ro = "none"

< auth_unix_rw = "none"
---
> #auth_unix_rw = "none"

Edit OpenvSwitch conf

# nano -w /etc/default/openvswitch-switch
     BRCOMPAT=no

Edit OVS bridges

Leave only main bridge

# ovs-vsctl del-br br2
# ovs-vsctl del-br br3

Configure KVM network

VM network example

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