Re: [Libguestfs] [nbdkit PATCH] vddk: Drop support for VDDK 5.1.1
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:32:50PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
That version depends on libexpat.so but does not ship it, and it
appears that VMware no longer supports it. Since VDDK 5.5.5 (the next
oldest version) dropped support for 32-bit platforms, we can slightly
simplify our code by documenting our minimum supported version.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com>
Yes, in general let's do this.
However we also should change the test in configure.ac (see around
lines 899ff.)
diff --git a/plugins/vddk/nbdkit-vddk-plugin.pod
b/plugins/vddk/nbdkit-vddk-plugin.pod
index 7ea2e797..766db302 100644
--- a/plugins/vddk/nbdkit-vddk-plugin.pod
+++ b/plugins/vddk/nbdkit-vddk-plugin.pod
@@ -451,7 +451,8 @@ For more information see
L<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1614276>;.
=head1 SUPPORTED VERSIONS OF VDDK
-This plugin requires VDDK E<ge> 5.1.1.
+This plugin requires VDDK E<ge> 5.5.5, which in turn means that it
+is only supported on 64-bit platforms.
Only on x86-64. I think we should say that. VMware internally have
an aarch64 version but AFAIK it has never been released.
Rich.
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