How to Install and Uninstall blktap-dkms Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "blktap-dkms" package

This tutorial shows how to install blktap-dkms on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                blktap-dkms
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "blktap-dkms" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall blktap-dkms on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the blktap-dkms package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: blktap-dkms
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.0.93-0.7ubuntu2~16.04.1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/kernel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Xen Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 83
Depends: dkms (>= 2.1.0.0), linux-libc-dev, libc6-dev
Filename: pool/universe/b/blktap-dkms/blktap-dkms_2.0.93-0.7ubuntu2~16.04.1_amd64.deb
Size: 18538
MD5sum: 670da8dd58baf37e70002762c0cb3f8c
SHA1: f74b76d0687c86fd54f0747c3acac5a854de81bb
SHA256: e223707e615559a9588a0d9f4e180a5bcaf818872140b9d3c6b04d682185c393
SHA512: 3ac8caa8558e1c2dd8e9ceea4143502d55ac04561fb75bca6ee876fa173bcb08675ded7800aa077229d5878df2208cfc9533e9bad3a34478a8fdca8643dc5073
Homepage: http://www.xen.org/
Description-en: Xen API blktap kernel component DKMS package
The Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) is an open source enterprise-ready server
virtualization and cloud computing platform, delivering the Xen Hypervisor
with support for a range of guest operating systems. This package is part
of it. It implements the userland part of the blktap driver.
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Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is a file format standard which maps logical hard disk
contents to a physical disk image format, which can then be more efficiently
stored in a variety of different storage types, such as file systems or
logical volumes.
.
VHDs are container files storing block metadata alongside a virtual disk's
contents, in a single disk image. The metadata enables advanced storage
backend capabilities, such as thin provisioning, disk image snapshotting, and
coalescing of differencing disks.
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Libvhd is a library to access VHD format metadata. It provides disk image
initialization, inspection and manipulation to both VHD user utilities and
the VHD disk driver in Blktap.
.
This package contains the source for the blktap kernel module. It
includes DKMS support so that installation of this package will
result in a working blktap kernel module.
Description-md5: 1b5cca4db2c5c6f0514f2fb6297f3d04

Package: blktap-dkms
Priority: optional
Section: universe/kernel
Installed-Size: 81
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Xen Team
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.0.93-0.5ubuntu1
Depends: dkms (>= 2.1.0.0), linux-libc-dev, libc6-dev
Filename: pool/universe/b/blktap-dkms/blktap-dkms_2.0.93-0.5ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 18416
MD5sum: ebe3ebd5b10b21d786d652c0c831adc5
SHA1: 7a2a04f42df55eb412ab16d1d7be02bd6c112a95
SHA256: 3ddca395bd16514f6b4850e8b8d3b3490e5fb034b926b8b4e69b3995b1930734
Description-en: Xen API blktap kernel component DKMS package
The Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) is an open source enterprise-ready server
virtualization and cloud computing platform, delivering the Xen Hypervisor
with support for a range of guest operating systems. This package is part
of it. It implements the userland part of the blktap driver.
.
Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is a file format standard which maps logical hard disk
contents to a physical disk image format, which can then be more efficiently
stored in a variety of different storage types, such as file systems or
logical volumes.
.
VHDs are container files storing block metadata alongside a virtual disk's
contents, in a single disk image. The metadata enables advanced storage
backend capabilities, such as thin provisioning, disk image snapshotting, and
coalescing of differencing disks.
.
Libvhd is a library to access VHD format metadata. It provides disk image
initialization, inspection and manipulation to both VHD user utilities and
the VHD disk driver in Blktap.
.
This package contains the source for the blktap kernel module. It
includes DKMS support so that installation of this package will
result in a working blktap kernel module.
Description-md5: 1b5cca4db2c5c6f0514f2fb6297f3d04
Homepage: http://www.xen.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu