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.
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.
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.
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".