Bug 1959174

Summary:	[ESXi][RHEL9] ESXi AARCH64 Bringup for Virt-What
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	virt-what	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	YongkuiGuo <yoguo>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	mtessun, razvan.vilt, rjones, virt-maint, yoguo
Target Milestone:	beta	Keywords:	OtherQA, Triaged
Target Release:	---	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
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Fixed In Version:	virt-what-1.21-1.el9.2	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2021-12-07 21:52:33 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2021-05-10 20:11:18 UTC

This bug was initially created as a copy of Bug #1959154

Virt-what doesn't recognize VMware VMs for AARCH64/ARM (with licensing implications in ESXi Fling for ARM and Fusion v.Next for ARM). I've created and attached a patch that adds both support for recognizing ESXi and the automated tests for it.

Patch added upstream:
http://git.annexia.org/?p=virt-what.git;a=commit;h=09094be5f2afa21bb5b8221580303f125fd90d0c

Comment 1 John Ferlan 2021-06-17 21:24:14 UTC

Rich - assigning directly to you so that this doesn't get lost on virt-maint's backlog queue of Triaged bugs (the keyword gets set as soon as ITR or devel_ack+ is set).

Comment 4 Richard W.M. Jones 2021-06-18 11:17:33 UTC

Proposed packages available here for testing:

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=9105

Comment 5 YongkuiGuo 2021-08-11 08:04:14 UTC

Hi Razvan Corneliu C.R. VILT,

Could you help set up a CentOS 9 Stream VM with https://odcs.stream.centos.org/production/latest-CentOS-Stream/compose/BaseOS/aarch64/os/? We need to verify this bug ASAP, thanks.

Comment 6 YongkuiGuo 2021-08-16 02:48:58 UTC

Changed the ITM and DTM from 24 to 26 because we cannot reach out to the reporter right now and we don't have the test env for verification.

Comment 7 YongkuiGuo 2021-08-26 09:48:22 UTC

My colleague(ldu) managed to install rhel9 VM on ESXi for ARM. Verified with package:
virt-what-1.21-1.el9.2.aarch64

Steps:

1. On rhel9 VM
[root@dhcp19-243-211 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.0 Beta (Plow)
[root@dhcp19-243-211 ~]# rpm -q virt-what
virt-what-1.21-1.el9.2.aarch64
[root@dhcp19-243-211 ~]# virt-what
vmware