virsh support requires an extra package to be installed

[Raphaël Badin]

In order to manage a virsh node, MAAS needs the libvirt-bin package (which contains `virsh`). libvirt-bin is only a suggested dependency so the virsh power type doesn't work "out of the box."

[Robie Basak (racb)]

libvirt-bin will pull in libvirtd, which will configure a virbr0, etc. I'm not sure we want to do that by default. I presume this is the original rationale for Suggests rather than Recommends or Depends.

I can see that libvirt might be installed on a different machine though, so perhaps we want virsh available but not libvirtd installed and configured.

Raphaël, does this sound reasonable and is this what you need? If so, I guess we'll need to split libvirt-bin in order to make any progress here.

[Raphaël Badin (rvb)]

> I can see that libvirt might be installed on a different machine though, so perhaps we want virsh available but not libvirtd
> installed and configured.

> Raphaël, does this sound reasonable and is this what you need? If so, I guess we'll need to split libvirt-bin in order to make
> any progress here.

Yes, this sounds like the proper way to fix this.