> From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> > To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at 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 at centos.org> > > 2018-08-22 10:49 GMT+02:00 Fabian Arrotin <arrfab at 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. > > > > $basearch on Power9 is still ppc64le, so it should just work ? > At least that's what I was told, as we have no Power9 to test it :) > > Can anybody with a power9 environment test it and give feedback? [hamzy at pkvmci901 ~]$ 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 at pkvmci901 ~]$ head /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : POWER9, altivec supported clock : 2166.000000MHz revision : 2.2 (pvr 004e 1202) ... [hamzy at pkvmci901 ~]$ sudo yum install -y centos-release-virt-common centos-release-qemu-ev [hamzy at pkvmci901 ~]$ sudo yum install -y qemu-kvm-ev libvirt virt-install [hamzy at pkvmci901 ~]$ sudo systemctl enable libvirtd.service; sudo systemctl start libvirtd.service [hamzy at pkvmci901 ~]$ sudo usermod -a -G qemu hamzy [hamzy at pkvmci901 ~]$ chmod o+rx ~/ [hamzy at pkvmci901 ~]$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 HamzyTest.qcow2 10G [hamzy at 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 at localhost /]# Buy, hey, RHEL does this as well. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20180824/d7d2dd3f/attachment-0008.html>