Bug 1373998

Summary:	RFE to support aarch64 emulation
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Jim Perrin <jperrin>
Component:	qemu	Assignee:	Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	epel7	CC:	alex.iribarren, crosa, dwmw2, hello, lkundrak, michael.luczkow, orion, pbonzini, virt-maint
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Description Jim Perrin 2016-09-07 15:48:51 UTC

Description of problem:
the current qemu package provides a number of qemu-system-* emulators, but is missing aarch64.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2:2.0.0-1.el7.6

I'd like to request that this be bumped to 2.2.x or 2.3.x in order to support aarch64 emulation as well. This would provide added support for RHELSA and CentOS aarch64 builds.

Comment 1 Cleber Rosa 2019-05-13 22:04:26 UTC

As of Fedora 30 (and much earlier than that) qemu-system-aarch64 is available:

$ rpm -qif /usr/bin/qemu-system-aarch64
Name        : qemu-system-aarch64-core
Epoch       : 2
Version     : 3.1.0
Release     : 7.fc30
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Wed 08 May 2019 09:38:46 AM EDT
Group       : Unspecified
Size        : 17497428
License     : GPLv2 and BSD and MIT and CC-BY
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Wed 17 Apr 2019 10:03:48 AM EDT, Key ID ef3c111fcfc659b9
Source RPM  : qemu-3.1.0-7.fc30.src.rpm
Build Date  : Tue 16 Apr 2019 10:54:10 PM EDT
Build Host  : buildvm-19.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : Fedora Project
Vendor      : Fedora Project
URL         : http://www.qemu.org/
Bug URL     : https://bugz.fedoraproject.org/qemu
Summary     : QEMU system emulator for AArch64
Description :
This package provides the QEMU system emulator for AArch64.

Comment 2 Jim Perrin 2019-05-14 00:07:11 UTC

That's only a solution for Fedora releases. This is filed against EPEL, where the package you listed isn't available. I'd still like to see this addressed.

Comment 3 Cleber Rosa 2019-05-14 01:36:03 UTC

Jim, you're right.  I apologize for closing the bug.

But, having said that, I would keep my hopes high for EPEL 8, but not so much for EPEL 7, where the last update on the qemu package dates from "Mon Nov 02 2015".