[CentOS-devel] CentOS ppc64le hypervisor support

Tue Jan 12 17:17:16 UTC 2016
James O'Connor <jpoc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> On Jan 12, 2016, at 8:11 AM, James Nash <jjnash at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there a list of "supported" methods for deployment of CentOS 7.2 on Power8? I know folks with VMs behind VIO servers with PowerVM. I understand VMs under PowerKVM with OPAL are also supported. Any ideas on bare metal CentOS under OPAL, Power8 with either latest firmware levels (FW840 or OP810)?
> 

The correct answer is that if it’s supported in RHEL 7.2 ppc64le, then it’s supported by CentOS 7 1511 ppc64le.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (little endian) is currently supported on PowerVM and PowerHV (bare metal) [1]

[1] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.2_Release_Notes/chap-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-7.2_Release_Notes-Architectures.html