From 9e64238a389264b34af20b49da929d5bf6ccd436 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 11:32:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] v2v: vddk: Further rework documentation.
Thanks for suggestions from Ming Xie.
(cherry picked from commit 12d87361a4623587c53196e70157448158c02c7f)
---
v2v/virt-v2v.pod | 18 ++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/v2v/virt-v2v.pod b/v2v/virt-v2v.pod
index 48a20cccc..417c25331 100644
--- a/v2v/virt-v2v.pod
+++ b/v2v/virt-v2v.pod
@@ -1304,6 +1304,10 @@ library is permitted by the license.
=item 2.
+VDDK E<ge> 6.5 is required.
+
+=item 3.
+
You must also compile nbdkit, enabling the VDDK plugin. At least
nbdkit E<ge> 1.1.16 is required, but it is usually best to compile
from the git tree.
@@ -1320,12 +1324,14 @@ L<https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/tree/master/plugins/vddk>
=back
-=item 3.
+Compile nbdkit as described in the sources (see link above).
-You do B<not> need to run C<make install>. You can run nbdkit from
-its source directory. Set C<$PATH> to point to the nbdkit top build
-directory (that is, the directory containing a shell script called
-F<nbdkit>), eg:
+You do B<not> need to run C<make install> because you can run nbdkit
+from its source directory. The source directory has a shell script
+called F<nbdkit> which runs the locally built copy of nbdkit and its
+plugins. So set C<$PATH> to point to the nbdkit top build directory
+(that is, the directory containing the shell script called F<nbdkit>),
+eg:
export PATH=/path/to/nbdkit-1.1.x:$PATH
@@ -1333,7 +1339,7 @@ F<nbdkit>), eg:
You must find the SSL "thumbprint" of your VMware server. How to do
this is explained in L<nbdkit-vddk-plugin(1)>, also available at the
-link given in item 2 above.
+link above.
=item 5.
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2.14.3