[fedora-virt] libguestfs on PPC64
[Note I'm not bothering with 32 bit ppc any more since it is
effectively obsolete.]
Libguestfs now works on ppc64 using the 'direct' backend. You will
need:
- libguestfs 1.23.21 + 7f90aa0998
- supermin 4.1.x (only tested with supermin-4.1.5-2.fc21.ppc64, but
earlier versions should work)
- qemu-system-ppc64 compiled from git (qemu 1.4 & 1.6 known to be broken)
- kernel-3.10.10-200.fc19.ppc64, earlier versions should work
- real ppc64 hardware
There are multiple bugs which stop you installing Fedora/ppc64 on
qemu-system-ppc64 running on x86-64.
Since Fedora 19 has dropped support for PR KVM, and since the Apple G5
I use for testing does not support real HV KVM, I could not test this
using KVM, only using TCG.
Next steps are:
- run the full test suite and fix any problems (in progress)
- get it working with the libvirt backend
All features should be fully supported except the UML backend won't
work (limitation of UML).
Rich.
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