[RHEL9] Unable to create VDO logical volumes because kvdo module fails to load: "modprobe: FATAL: Module kmod-kvdo not found in directory /lib/modules"

Issue

• Trying to load vdo module results in the following error on different versions of RHEL:

# modprobe -v kvdo
modprobe: FATAL: Module kvdo not found in directory /lib/modules/5.14.0-162.22.2.el9_1.x86_64
# modprobe kmod-kvdo
modprobe: FATAL: Module kmod-kvdo not found in directory /lib/modules/5.14.0-362.18.1.el9_3.x86_64
# modprobe kvdo
modprobe: FATAL: Module kvdo not found in directory /lib/modules/5.14.0-570.24.1.el9_6.x86_64
# modprobe kmod-kvdo
modprobe: FATAL: Module kmod-kvdo not found in directory /lib/modules/5.14.0-611.30.1.el9_7.x86_64

• Unable to create VDO logical volumes:

# lvcreate --vdo -L 5G -V 10G test
modprobe: FATAL: Module kvdo not found in directory /lib/modules/5.14.0-570.24.1.el9_6.x86_64
  /usr/sbin/modprobe failed: 1
  vdo: Required device-mapper target(s) not detected in your kernel.
  Run `lvcreate --help' for more information.