qemu-kvm can be used to run ppc64 guests on ppc64le hosts and vice versa, since the hardware is actually the same and the endianness is chosen by the guest kernel. Up until now, however, libvirt didn't allow the use of qemu-kvm to run guests if their endianness didn't match the host's. Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1267882 --- src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c index eb2edf5..8253398 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c @@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ virQEMUCapsInitGuest(virCapsPtr caps, char *binary = NULL; virQEMUCapsPtr qemubinCaps = NULL; virQEMUCapsPtr kvmbinCaps = NULL; - bool native_kvm, x86_32on64_kvm, arm_32on64_kvm; + bool native_kvm, x86_32on64_kvm, arm_32on64_kvm, ppc64_kvm; int ret = -1; /* Check for existence of base emulator, or alternate base @@ -788,14 +788,16 @@ virQEMUCapsInitGuest(virCapsPtr caps, * - host & guest arches match * - hostarch is x86_64 and guest arch is i686 (needs -cpu qemu32) * - hostarch is aarch64 and guest arch is armv7l (needs -cpu aarch64=off) + * - hostarch and guestarch are both ppc64* */ native_kvm = (hostarch == guestarch); x86_32on64_kvm = (hostarch == VIR_ARCH_X86_64 && guestarch == VIR_ARCH_I686); arm_32on64_kvm = (hostarch == VIR_ARCH_AARCH64 && guestarch == VIR_ARCH_ARMV7L); + ppc64_kvm = (ARCH_IS_PPC64(hostarch) && ARCH_IS_PPC64(guestarch)); - if (native_kvm || x86_32on64_kvm || arm_32on64_kvm) { + if (native_kvm || x86_32on64_kvm || arm_32on64_kvm || ppc64_kvm) { const char *kvmbins[] = { "/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm", /* RHEL */ "qemu-kvm", /* Fedora */