On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 09:05:38PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
The virt-devel module appears to be missing from CentOS 8. I filed https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16492 but haven't had any response, so I figured I would try here as well. Can anyone clue me in to what's up? Thanks!
There's a virt module in RHEL 8, but I didn't know there was a virt-devel module. Is this something specific to CentOS?
Anyway with respect to the bug report, we added libssh2 to the virt module RHEL 8.0, but removed it in 8.1.
The reason is to do with certification. We (Red Hat) could only afford to have one ssh client library go through Common Criteria certification, and the one we chose was libssh (which is a completely different & unrelated library from libssh2, not an earlier version).
But at the time RHEL 8.0 shipped, qemu was dependent on libssh2 so we had to temporarily ship it in the virt module. Then we worked on changing qemu so it depends on libssh, added libssh to RHEL AppStream, updated qemu, and dropped libssh2 from the virt module.
If libssh2 is missing then it's probably as a consequence of these shenanigans, but long term it's best to use libssh and forget about libssh2.
Rich.