> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo@redhat.com>
> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel@centos.org>
> Date: 08/22/2018 03:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1804) on
> POWER9 (ppc64le)
> Sent by: "CentOS-devel" <centos-devel-bounces@centos.org>
>
> 2018-08-22 10:49 GMT+02:00 Fabian Arrotin <arrfab@centos.org>:
> On 22/08/18 10:44, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> >
> > This is a great news.
> > Can we have a power9 arch repo
> > in http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/virt/as well?
> > I guess other SIGs are in same situation.
> >
>
> $basearch on Power9 is still ppc64le, so it should just work ?
> At least that's what I was told, as we have no Power9 to test it :)
>
> Can anybody with a power9 environment test it and give feedback?

[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ uname -a
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
[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ head /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
cpu             : POWER9, altivec supported
clock           : 2166.000000MHz
revision        : 2.2 (pvr 004e 1202)
...
[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ sudo yum install -y centos-release-virt-common centos-release-qemu-ev
[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ sudo yum install -y qemu-kvm-ev libvirt virt-install
[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ sudo systemctl enable libvirtd.service; sudo systemctl start libvirtd.service
[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ sudo usermod -a -G qemu hamzy
[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ chmod o+rx ~/
[hamzy@pkvmci901 ~]$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 HamzyTest.qcow2 10G
[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"

But then the installer immediately drops to the shell. :(

[anaconda root@localhost /]#

Buy, hey, RHEL does this as well.