Re: virt-install on centos 7.9 not seeing qemu-aarch64?

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 at 14:22, Owen LaGarde <olagarde@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
> I'm trying to create a Rocky 8 aarch64 guest on a centos 7.9 host, coming 
> from an ubuntu host.  I have this working on a minimal popos at home just to 
> verify I'm not insane.  The "real, at work" host does have to be centos 7 
> x86_64 though it will be replaced with rocky 8 x86_64 "soon".  The kicker:  
> I'd very much prefer to use virt-install because there's a large amount of 
> pre-existing automation I'd have to rewrite otherwise.  I see the arm and 
> aarch64 support added by the expected qemu-user (2.0.0-1.el7.6.x86_64) but 
> virt-install won't use it(?).

I can't help with the virt-install side of things but I would note
that QEMU 2.0 is absolutely ancient, especially for aarch64 guests;
if you have a way of using something newer I would recommend that.

-- PMM