<tt><font size=2>> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo@redhat.com></font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list."
<centos-devel@centos.org></font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>> Date: 08/22/2018 03:53 AM</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Release for CentOS
Linux 7 (1804) on <br>> POWER9 (ppc64le)</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>> Sent by: "CentOS-devel" <centos-devel-bounces@centos.org></font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>> <br>> 2018-08-22 10:49 GMT+02:00 Fabian Arrotin <arrfab@centos.org>:</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>> On 22/08/18 10:44, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:<br>> > <br>> > This is a great news.<br>> > Can we have a power9 arch repo<br>> > in </font></tt><a href=http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/virt/><tt><font size=2>http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/virt/</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2>as well?<br>> > I guess other SIGs are in same situation.<br>> > <br>> <br>> $basearch on Power9 is still ppc64le, so it should just work ?<br>> At least that's what I was told, as we have no Power9 to test it :)</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>> <br>> Can anybody with a power9 environment test it and give feedback?</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size=2>[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ uname -a</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>Linux pkvmci901.pok.stglabs.ibm.com 4.14.0-49.el7a.ppc64le
#1 SMP Mon Aug 6 16:14:35 GMT 2018 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ head /proc/cpuinfo</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>processor : 0</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>cpu : POWER9,
altivec supported</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>clock : 2166.000000MHz</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>revision : 2.2 (pvr 004e
1202)</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>...</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ sudo yum install -y centos-release-virt-common
centos-release-qemu-ev</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ sudo yum install -y qemu-kvm-ev
libvirt virt-install</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ sudo systemctl enable libvirtd.service;
sudo systemctl start libvirtd.service</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ sudo usermod -a -G qemu hamzy</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ chmod o+rx ~/</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 HamzyTest.qcow2
10G</font></tt><br><tt><font size=2>[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ sudo virt-install --virt-type
kvm --name HamzyTest --memory 8192 --graphics none --disk HamzyTest.qcow2,format=qcow2
--network=bridge:virbr0 --os-type=linux --os-variant=rhel7.4 --location=http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7.5.1804/os/power9/
--extra-args="inst.text console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200"</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size=2>But then the installer immediately drops to the shell.
:(</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size=2>[anaconda root@localhost /]#</font></tt><br><br><tt><font size=2>Buy, hey, RHEL does this as well.</font></tt><BR>