[Vm-dev] Unexpected external library dependencies on linux

[Levente Uzonyi]

Hi All,

I tried to upgrade a VM on a server, and found that recently built VMs on 
bintray have extra dependencies.
The original VM from 2019 (sqlinux.2019030800022) depends on the following 
according to ldd:

linux-vdso.so.1
libdl.so.2
libm.so.6
libpthread.so.0
libc.so.6
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

All dependencies are available on the server.
However, recent VMs (202003050026 from March, 202004160240 from April) 
also depend on the following:

libuuid.so.1
libutil.so.1
libpulse-simple.so.0
libasound.so.2

The last two are the most worrying as servers usually don't need or have 
sound installed. So, without pulseaudio installed, these VMs won't start.
Does anyone know how and why those new dependencies got there?

(These are the dependencies of the VM binary itself not dependencies of 
external plugins).


Levente