From b1a89d3b1ccdcd5aed3619cfc2c47812b288205e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:05:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] test-tool: Document how to run with alternate libvirt. --- test-tool/libguestfs-test-tool.pod | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/test-tool/libguestfs-test-tool.pod b/test-tool/libguestfs-test-tool.pod index ddd212d4c..3345a8901 100644 --- a/test-tool/libguestfs-test-tool.pod +++ b/test-tool/libguestfs-test-tool.pod @@ -90,6 +90,21 @@ old febootstrap 3.21 program). Refer to L for further information. +=head1 TRYING OUT A DIFFERENT VERSION OF LIBVIRT + +If you are using the libvirt attach-method, then you can try out a +different (eg. upstream) version of libvirt by running these commands +(I as root): + + killall libvirtd lt-libvirtd + ~/path/to/libvirt/run libguestfs-test-tool + +The first command kills any session C process(es) that may +be running on the machine. The second command uses libvirt's C +script (in the top-level libvirt build directory) to set some +environment variables so that the alternate version of libvirt is used +to run the program. + =head1 SELF-DIAGNOSIS Refer to L to understand the