On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 11:13:06 +0800, Brad wrote in message
<184151f6-16e3-f59c-1d07-47394f30f4cc@???>:

> On 5/8/21 4:40 am, AP wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > first I thank all DEVUAN people for the pure pleasure of running my
> > system (since ASCII 2018) without a bloatware.
> >
> > This is my first message and I am sorry, that my search did not
> > give me the answer about:
> >
> > maintenance of the libvirt package without X11 and DBus
> >
> > Question: is there a way to get the package for libvirt + QEMU/KVM
> > for headless VMs - when no X, no DBus needed?
>
> You can always compile it yourself. I've just checked and I'm still
> running a self-compiled v4 on my main box. Certainly in the v5.6.0
> code I just looked at there's an option to disable dbus.
>
> From memory I stopped upgrading when they migrated away from
> autoconf and make. The redhat-isms were just making it too hard to
> build on older stable debian-based systems, so I stuck with V4. These
> days it'd be easy enough to use the packaged versions I suppose.
>
> Brad

..any of you guys wanting to package what you have running?
To me, this sounds like a viable basis for the bare metal
hypervisor idea in the "[DNG] Devuan as a hypervisor?" thread.

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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