apt libvirt package

[Paul D. O'Rorke]

Hi Brad,

For Ubuntu add the Linbit PPA.  From this page: 
https://linbit.com/drbd-user-guide/drbd-guide-9_0-en/#s-from-source


            3.3.3. Ubuntu Linux

    For Ubuntu LTS, LINBIT offers a PPA repository
    athttps://launchpad.net/~linbit/+archive/ubuntu/linbit-drbd9-stack
    <https://launchpad.net/~linbit/+archive/ubuntu/linbit-drbd9-stack>.
    SeeAdding Launchpad PPA Repositories
    <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine#Adding_Launchpad_PPA_Repositories>for
    more information

20.04 LTS then has DRBD9 from apt.

* Paul O'Rorke*

On 2021-10-25 9:49 a.m., admin at foundryserver.com wrote:

> I would prefer the ubuntu packages. I am most familiar with that 
> distro.  I can make centos8 work if I have to but I prefer not.
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad
>
> *From:*Peter Crowther <peter.crowther at melandra.com>
> *Sent:* October 24, 2021 2:38 PM
> *To:* admin at foundryserver.com
> *Cc:* libvirt-ML <libvirt-users at redhat.com>
> *Subject:* Re: apt libvirt package
>
> Do you want this on CentOS 8, Ubuntu 20.04, or something else?  The 
> help we can give you will vary quite considerably depending on the 
> distro you use; and, as you point out, RedHat-derived and 
> Debian-derived distributions are very different.
>
> For CentOS, do you have the advanced virtualization repo enabled? 
> https://centos.pkgs.org/8-stream/centos-extras-x86_64/centos-release-advanced-virtualization-1.0-3.el8.noarch.rpm.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 at 20:31, <admin at foundryserver.com> wrote:
>
>     Hello again,
>
>     So I have been struggling to compile the libvirt newest version 
>     7.8.0.  I am running CentOS 8 and during the meson build process I
>     am getting non stop dependency fails.  I keep installing the
>     necessary packages and slowly progressing.  Now the last one that
>     stopped was gnutls.  When I go to install that package   via  yum
>     install gnutls -y it says that it is already complete and
>     installed.   Sigh…….
>
>     I am very surprised that there is no package for libvirt via
>     rpm,yum etc… the lastest one installed via yum was 6.0.0.
>
>     Can someone help by pointing to some where that has these latest
>     packages?  Or how best to compile this from source.  It is amazing
>     how much is missing from this distro.
>
>     Thanks again.
>
>     Brad
>
>     *From:*admin at foundryserver.com <admin at foundryserver.com>
>     *Sent:* October 23, 2021 12:54 PM
>     *To:* 'libvirt-users at redhat.com' <libvirt-users at redhat.com>
>     *Subject:* apt libvirt package
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I am new to kvm/qemu/libvirt.  I am loving it.  I am working on
>     setting my first vm with shared file system with virtio-fs.  I got
>     an error, and google foo said, my version was too old.  When I
>     checked it said.
>
>     libvirt version: 6.0.0, package: 0ubuntu8.14 (Matthew Ruffell
>     matthew.ruffell at canonical.com Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:00:49 +1200)
>
>     I used apt package manager to install libvirt. I am running on
>     ubuntu 20.04.  I have tried apt update libvirt and I get..no
>     updates available. What do I do at this point?  Do I have to build
>     it from source?
>
>     Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>     Brad
>
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