On 08/24/2018 09:04 AM, Mark Hamzy wrote: >> 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. Looks like to me that this issue is what arch is supported by qemu-kvm, right? Or there is an error caused by the new lorax/anaconda tree. You could, theoretically, install the VM from ppc64le tree, then change your repo files to point to the power9 tree and upgrade. I think the stock ARCH type from qemu would be ppc64le (power8) and its not really emulating power9, right? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20180825/647b6698/attachment-0008.sig>