Add libvirt-dev to kvm-host bundle

[bswinnerton]

👋 Hi there!

I'm using the kvm-host bundle, and it's working great. I run a Grafana instance and I'd like to get some libvirt related data out of it. I started researching and there's a tool to pull data out using Prometheus over in https://github.com/kumina/libvirt_exporter, but it depends on libvirt-dev in order to access the libvirt APIs and get metrics.

It looks like the libvirt-dev package is available in os-utils-gui-dev, but I was wondering if it could be added to the kvm-host bundle, or perhaps adding a kvm-host-dev bundle with it 🙏.

For posterity, when trying to build the libvirt_exporter source, this was the error I was getting that led me towards this request:

Package libvirt was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libvirt.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libvirt' found

[bryteise]

Hello, that would be fine but I think it might be even easier for you if we were to add libvirt_exporter to a related bundle (or maybe as a standalone bundle) instead.

[bryteise]

I just looked over at the git repo and it looks like they haven't made a release yet, we could take the latest git commit but we really prefer projects that make releases.

[bswinnerton]

👋 @bryteise, thank you for the assistance on this!

I just looked over at the git repo and it looks like they haven't made a release yet, we could take the latest git commit but we really prefer projects that make releases.

I just wrote them a proposal to support GitHub releases (or tags, even) over in kumina/libvirt_exporter#12. We'll have to wait and see what they say.

In the mean time, what are your thoughts on adding libvirt-dev to the kvm-host bundle (or a new kvm-host-dev bundle)? That may open up possibilities for others who may want to tap into the libvirt APIs outside of the libvirt_exporter project.

[bswinnerton]

Hey @bryteise! Just wondering if you had any thoughts on my message above.

[bryteise]

Hey, thanks for the ping, too many things going on X(. In general we keep development libraries out of use case oriented bundles (outside of developer use case bundles) so I guess I'll just spin up the kvm-host-dev bundle.

[bryteise]

Should in theory be in the morning build. Hopefully we can get the exporter in when they make their release.

[bswinnerton]

Thank you so much, @bryteise!