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From 6bb859d7992908aa09619b8afd487464724c72a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: Pino Toscano <ptoscano@redhat.com>
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:19:43 +0200
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Subject: [PATCH] v2v: update documentation on nbdkit (RHBZ#1605242)
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nbdkit >= 1.6 ships a VDDK plugin always built, so recommend that
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version instead of recommending to build nbdkit from sources.
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(cherry picked from commit 0704d8eb0bcc8139886eb4291f75a3ca49a91e58)
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---
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v2v/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod | 28 ++--------------------------
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1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/v2v/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod b/v2v/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
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index 2b6dbaeec..b3ebda182 100644
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--- a/v2v/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
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+++ b/v2v/virt-v2v-input-vmware.pod
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@@ -197,32 +197,8 @@ library is permitted by the license.
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=item 2.
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-You must also compile nbdkit, enabling the VDDK plugin. nbdkit E<ge>
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-1.1.25 is recommended, but it is usually best to compile from the git
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-tree.
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-
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-=over 4
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-
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-=item *
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-
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-L<https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit>
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-
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-=item *
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-
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-L<https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/tree/master/plugins/vddk>
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-
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-=back
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-
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-Compile nbdkit as described in the sources (see link above).
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-
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-You do B<not> need to run C<make install> because you can run nbdkit
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-from its source directory. The source directory has a shell script
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-called F<nbdkit> which runs the locally built copy of nbdkit and its
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-plugins. So set C<$PATH> to point to the nbdkit top build directory
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-(that is, the directory containing the shell script called F<nbdkit>),
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-eg:
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-
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- export PATH=/path/to/nbdkit-1.1.x:$PATH
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+nbdkit E<ge> 1.6 is recommended, as it ships with the VDDK plugin
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+enabled unconditionally.
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=item 3.
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--
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2.21.0
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