[Users] ploop and mount options

[Kir Kolyshkin]

On 09/12/2012 03:59 PM, Corin Langosch wrote:
>
> On 08.09.2012 at 15:31 +0200, Kir Kolyshkin <kir at openvz.org> wrote:
>>
>> In fact I just implemented that as a --mount_opts option to vzctl 
>> set. See these git commits:
>> http://git.openvz.org/?p=vzctl;a=commit;h=af95fbdf
>> http://git.openvz.org/?p=vzctl;a=commit;h=287d0d
>> http://git.openvz.org/?p=vzctl;a=commit;h=7eb61c
>>
>> Feel free to test and report your results.
>
> That's really great news. :)
>
> I just checked out the repo and tried to compile with:
>
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
>
> Now configure complains:
>
> checking ploop/dynload.h usability... no
> checking ploop/dynload.h presence... no
> checking for ploop/dynload.h... no
> configure: error:
> The ploop library headers not found or way too old. You need to either
> install recent ploop library headers (most probably ploop-devel package),
> or use ./configure --without-ploop
>
> Now I also checked out the repo "ploop", but is doesn't contain the 
> missing file "dynload.h". Where can I get it?

The file is auto-generated. The best way to proceed is compile and 
install ploop package first.

cd ploop
./setver.sh -i

Will build and install ploop rpms for you (and you can use same for vzctl).

>
> I also wonder how to build the nice tar.gz archives which can be found 
> on the website. Is there some script to build them once compilation 
> succeeds?

Those are produced from rpms using rpm2cpio.