Re: [ISSUE] [CLOSED] incus: doesn't include dependencies required for running virtual machines.

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Closed issue by cmspam on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/49267

Description:
I wanted to open a discussion about whether the maintainers of void want to do anything to handle this.

Incus is a container and virtual machine manager. Installing incus on void provides what's needed for container management, but not for virtual machine management. Actually, getting virtual machine functionality working can take quite a bit of annoying trial and error to figure out exactly what packages need to be installed.

We can look at how other distributions handle this...

Alpine linux solves this by providing an additional [incus-vm package](https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/testing/x86_64/incus-vm)

The [incus spec file](https://ngompa.fedorapeople.org/for-review/incus.spec) being reviewed for inclusion into fedora uses recommends for VM-related packages.

Meanwhile the [repositories](https://github.com/zabbly/incus) for ubuntu/debian maintained by Stéphane Graber, have the VM-related binaries included in the incus package.

My initial thoughts are that handling it similarly to alpine wouldn't be such a bad idea, but is this something the maintainers here are interested in having implemented?