Historically PowerPC 64 was always supported with qemu-kvm in RHEL. In future RHEL-9 it is being discontinued and this was addressed in commit 03cc3c9064322ac4028a2213105cd230fe28c013 Author: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: Wed Apr 21 14:55:03 2021 +0200 spec: Do not build qemu driver for Power on RHEL-9 when the specfile was cleaned up to remove RHEL-7 support: commit 0f601d2f868f2017cdd16e0a7ca90a59e7d5e120 Author: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: Wed May 5 19:30:46 2021 +0200 spec: Bump min_fedora and min_rhel it also removed the logic that applied to RHEL-8 wrt arch list and lost PowerPC 64 support on 8. This reverts that part of the change but with the condition reversed to prioritize the future state. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; --- libvirt.spec.in | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in index f421828d16..8ac324be0a 100644 --- a/libvirt.spec.in +++ b/libvirt.spec.in @@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ %define arches_qemu_kvm %{ix86} x86_64 %{power64} %{arm} aarch64 s390x %if 0%{?rhel} - %define arches_qemu_kvm x86_64 aarch64 s390x + %if 0%{?rhel} > 8 + %define arches_qemu_kvm x86_64 aarch64 s390x + %else + %define arches_qemu_kvm x86_64 %{power64} aarch64 s390x + %endif %endif %define arches_64bit x86_64 %{power64} aarch64 s390x riscv64 -- 2.31.1