CentOS virt - May 2018 - libvirt and libvirt-daemon-xen: failing dependencies

Hi all,

I'm trying to install libvirt for xen on a brand new, minimal
installation of CentOS 7.5.1804. After installing the OS, I did a 'yum
update' and followed the basic how-tos at

    https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart

and

    https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart/Xen4Libvirt

From previous experience, I know that the above steps worked fine.
However, now on CentOS 7.5, I am seeing the dependency resolution failing.

$ yum install libvirt libvirt-daemon-xen
[ ... ]
Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-xen-3.2.1-402.el7.x86_64 (centos-virt-xen-46)
           Requires: libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter = 3.2.1-402.el7
           Available:
libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-3.2.1-402.el7.x86_64 (centos-virt-xen-46)
               libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter = 3.2.1-402.el7
           Available: libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-3.9.0-14.el7.x86_64
(base)
               libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter = 3.9.0-14.el7
           Installing:
libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-3.9.0-14.el7_5.2.x86_64 (updates)
               libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter = 3.9.0-14.el7_5.2
Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-3.2.1-402.el7.x86_64
(centos-virt-xen-46)
           Requires: libvirt-daemon = 3.2.1-402.el7
           Available: libvirt-daemon-3.2.1-402.el7.x86_64
(centos-virt-xen-46)
               libvirt-daemon = 3.2.1-402.el7
           Available: libvirt-daemon-3.9.0-14.el7.x86_64 (base)
               libvirt-daemon = 3.9.0-14.el7
           Installing: libvirt-daemon-3.9.0-14.el7_5.2.x86_64 (updates)
               libvirt-daemon = 3.9.0-14.el7_5.2

[ ... similar errors ... ]
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

I've never seen an error like this before. As far as I read it,
libvirt-daemon-xen wants version 3.2.1 of its dependencies. I've checked
the repositories and it seems that in 'base' and 'updates' we
have
version 3.9.0 and in the 'virt' repo we have 3.2.1 of libvirt. Can I
solve this issue on my end? Should I force yum to install the packages
from the 'virt' repo?

Cheers,
Frank

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On 05/17/2018 01:57 PM, Frank Sauerburger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to install libvirt for xen on a brand new, minimal
> installation of CentOS 7.5.1804. After installing the OS, I did a 'yum
> update' and followed the basic how-tos at
> 
>     https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart
> 
> and
> 
>     https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart/Xen4Libvirt
> 
> From previous experience, I know that the above steps worked fine.
> However, now on CentOS 7.5, I am seeing the dependency resolution failing.
> 
> $ yum install libvirt libvirt-daemon-xen
> [ ... ]
> Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-xen-3.2.1-402.el7.x86_64
(centos-virt-xen-46)
>            Requires: libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter = 3.2.1-402.el7
>            Available:
> libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-3.2.1-402.el7.x86_64 (centos-virt-xen-46)
>                libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter = 3.2.1-402.el7
>            Available: libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-3.9.0-14.el7.x86_64
> (base)
>                libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter = 3.9.0-14.el7
>            Installing:
> libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-3.9.0-14.el7_5.2.x86_64 (updates)
>                libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter = 3.9.0-14.el7_5.2
> Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-3.2.1-402.el7.x86_64
> (centos-virt-xen-46)
>            Requires: libvirt-daemon = 3.2.1-402.el7
>            Available: libvirt-daemon-3.2.1-402.el7.x86_64
> (centos-virt-xen-46)
>                libvirt-daemon = 3.2.1-402.el7
>            Available: libvirt-daemon-3.9.0-14.el7.x86_64 (base)
>                libvirt-daemon = 3.9.0-14.el7
>            Installing: libvirt-daemon-3.9.0-14.el7_5.2.x86_64 (updates)
>                libvirt-daemon = 3.9.0-14.el7_5.2
> 
> [ ... similar errors ... ]
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> 
> I've never seen an error like this before. As far as I read it,
> libvirt-daemon-xen wants version 3.2.1 of its dependencies. I've
checked
> the repositories and it seems that in 'base' and 'updates'
we have
> version 3.9.0 and in the 'virt' repo we have 3.2.1 of libvirt. Can
I
> solve this issue on my end? Should I force yum to install the packages
> from the 'virt' repo?
Red Hat upgraded the libvirt provided in 7.5 from 3.2.0 to 3.9.0, but
they don't provide a Xen driver, which is the reason you are seeing the
dependency issue.

A 4.1.0 release of libvirt is currently in testing, along with other
updates to deal with CentOS 7.5 changes.  You also need to exclude the
seabios updates because HVM guests cannot boot using the new Red Hat
version.

The best workaround for now is probably to either set up
yum-plugin-priorities and set a high priority on the centos-virt-xen*
repo, or exclude=libvirt* seabios* in your base and updates repos.

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