based on an offline discussion we'd like to drop some drivers from all supported PPC OSes for 3.6/RHEL 7.2 --- > > for ppc we have following drivers: > > network: VirtIO, VirtIO_SCSI, SPAPR_VSCSI > > storage: VirtIO, spaprVlan, e1000, rtl8139 > > Is it too late to remove e1000 and rtl8139? There's really no reason > you'd need those instead of virtio or spapr-vlan, and they complicate > matters. We've already disabled them in the RHEL hypervisor, and I > gather e1000 doesn't work (though rtl8139 does) in the IBM hypervisor. well, it's too late for RHEV For Power released last October, but certainly not late for RHEV 3.6/RHEL 7.2. It's configurable per guest OS
For verification: Choose on cluster ppc64 architecture, and check that for a new VM added, there are no e1000 and rtl8139 options, when adding network interface.
Wait for 3.6 RHEL7.2 ppc build
Verified on ovirt-engine-3.6.0-0.0.master.20150627185750.git6f063c1.el6.noarch Available network device types: VirtiO sPARP VLAN PCI Passthrough