Comment 5 for bug 565771

Grr I also don't like this!.... centos has esx compiled in.. but this debian package still dont..

ubuntu 14.4
this might work for you.

git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt.git
cd libvirt
git checkout v1.2.2

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool autopoint xsltproc w3c-dtd-xhtml
sudo apt-get install libdevmapper-dev python-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libnl-dev libgnutls-dev libpciaccess-dev libxml2-dev
sudo apt-get install libxen-dev uuid-dev

# I had compile error using --with-selinux so i disabled it.
./autogen.sh --system --without-selinux
# you might want to include arg: --enable-debug=yes

make
#make check
sudo make install