Notes on building a qemu 2.51 deb package for use in containers.

Mostly followed instructions here: ​http://www.atrixnet.com/compile-qemu-from-source-and-make-a-debian-package-with-checkinstall. In brief though:

• Download qemu source and untar. cd to source dir.
• mkdir build && cd ./build
• ../configure --enable-libssh2 --enable-gnutls --enable-vde --enable-vnc --enable-vnc-png --enable-kvm --target-list=i386-linux-user,i386-softmmu,x86_64-linux-user

,x86_64-softmmu

• make -j24
• sudo checkinstall -D
  • set version to qemu version
  • set name to "qemu"
  • set requirements to: "libaio1, librbd1, libbluetooth3, libvdeplug2, libxen-4.4, libfdt1, libssh2-1, libvte-2.90-9, libsnappy1, liblzo2-2, libibverbs1, librdmacm1"
    • this will cause dpkg to install these libs so they do not have to be in ./etc/hv:qemu_packages in the containers source code tree. This libs still must be added to ./etc/hv:qemu-packages.
• set provides to "qemu"

Once built, there will be a deb file in the current directory. Copy that to ./packages/hv:qemu/ and it will get picked up and 'dpkg -i' installed when containers is bootstrapped on the pnodes.