Re: [Libguestfs] [p2v PATCH 15/15] virt-p2v.pod: explain how to bring iSCSI LUNs to the disk selection dialog

On 09/23/22 11:54, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> (2) Should we drop Gtk2 support? I kept this around to allow virt-p2v > to be compiled on RHEL <= 6. RHEL 5 in particular needs Gtk 2.10, > which even for Gtk 2 is an old version. Those RHEL releases had > support for some old hardware, especially some old HP Smart Array > devices, which was dropped in newer RHEL, making it impossible to > convert physical machines using those devices. > > However the move to PCRE2 means that we can no longer compile on RHEL 6 > (RHEL 7 is still OK). Gtk2 itself went out of support in 2021 [0], > although that is not very relevant. > > If we had a customer who wanted support for the old devices, perhaps > it is better to look for a modern distro that still supports them and > would have Gtk 3, PCRE 2, etc. Perhaps Fedora or Debian. I'll look into removing gtk2 support from virt-p2v.