On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:46:16 +0100
"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com> wrote:
For Fedora 6 & 7, the virtualization management stack based on
libvirt was never built for PPC. This is because it depended on Xen
which was x86(_64) only. Since libvirt now has support for managing
QEMU / KVM too, and QEMU RPMs are available on PPC in Fedora, we have
removed the ExcludeArch from all the virt management RPMs. Xen
support in libvirt is still explicitly excluded on PPC - we only
build QEMU support. The build was just completed so RPMs should be
available in rawhide in the near future.
If the kernel-xen in Fedora ever gets PPC support we can also enable
libvirt to support Xen on PPC, but that's blocked on PPC kernel merge
& not aware of anyone actively working on that.
So I'm not sure how you'd prevent this, but qemu cannot emulate
usefully a fully working ppc(64) guest. There are lots of problems
there, and a non-existant upstream for it. So you might be able to use
libvirt + qemu to emulate x86 on ppc, but not ppc itself.
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