qemu-system-x86 package used by packer.

[Virt Man]

Hi Experts.

I am using RHEL OS to build the images using packer.io. Finally I had to download the package (qemu-system-x86-2.0.0-1.el7.6.x86_64) from CentOS. Is there any equivalent package that Redhat provides ? 

Thanks

VirtM

[Rickard von Essen]

That package is only available in EPEL, that is an backport of packages from Fedora to EL (Enterprise Linux). That includes CentOS, RHEL etc. See

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

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[Virt Man]

Thanks for the help. I could able to get that from EPEL.

I also tried below procedure which also works. This might help to the ppl who wants to get the package only from Redhat.

pointed my system to redhat setalite server. Installed qemu-kvm package.

yum install qemu-kvm.

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================================================================
 Package                       Arch                 Version                              Repository                        Size
================================================================================================================================
Updating:
 qemu-kvm                      x86_64               10:1.5.3-160.el7_6.2                 rhel-7-server-rpms               1.9 M
Updating for dependencies:
 qemu-img                      x86_64               10:1.5.3-160.el7_6.2                 rhel-7-server-rpms               695 k
 qemu-kvm-common               x86_64               10:1.5.3-160.el7_6.2                 rhel-7-server-rpms               432 k

Transaction Summary

Upgrade  1 Package (+2 Dependent packages)

Total download size: 3.0 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
No Presto metadata available for rhel-7-server-rpms
(1/3): qemu-img-1.5.3-160.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm                                                             | 695 kB  00:00:00
(2/3): qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-160.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm                                                      | 432 kB  00:00:00
(3/3): qemu-kvm-1.5.3-160.el7_6.2.x86_64.rpm                                                             | 1.9 MB  00:00:01
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total                                                                                           1.8 MB/s | 3.0 MB  00:00:01
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
  Updating   : 10:qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-160.el7_6.2.x86_64                                                                  1/6
  Updating   : 10:qemu-img-1.5.3-160.el7_6.2.x86_64                                                                         2/6
  Updating   : 10:qemu-kvm-1.5.3-160.el7_6.2.x86_64                                                                         3/6
  Cleanup    : 10:qemu-kvm-1.5.3-160.el7_6.1.x86_64                                                                         4/6
  Cleanup    : 10:qemu-img-1.5.3-160.el7_6.1.x86_64                                                                         5/6
  Cleanup    : 10:qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-160.el7_6.1.x86_64                                                                  6/6
  Verifying  : 10:qemu-img-1.5.3-160.el7_6.2.x86_64                                                                         1/6
  Verifying  : 10:qemu-kvm-1.5.3-160.el7_6.2.x86_64                                                                         2/6
  Verifying  : 10:qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-160.el7_6.2.x86_64                                                                  3/6
  Verifying  : 10:qemu-img-1.5.3-160.el7_6.1.x86_64                                                                         4/6
  Verifying  : 10:qemu-kvm-common-1.5.3-160.el7_6.1.x86_64                                                                  5/6
  Verifying  : 10:qemu-kvm-1.5.3-160.el7_6.1.x86_64                                                                         6/6

Updated:
  qemu-kvm.x86_64 10:1.5.3-160.el7_6.2

Dependency Updated:
  qemu-img.x86_64 10:1.5.3-160.el7_6.2                        qemu-kvm-common.x86_64 10:1.5.3-160.el7_6.2

Complete!

Later edited the packer json file and used as below

{
  "builders":
  [
    {
      "type": "qemu",
      "iso_url": "/home/xyx/tmp/rhel-test.iso",
      "iso_checksum": "34983jhadhfaksf9asfsaifakj",
      "iso_checksum_type": "md5",
      "output_directory": "/home/xyx/tmp/image",
      "disk_size": 307200,
      "cpus": 1,
      "memory": 16500,
      "format": "qcow2",
      "headless": false,
      "accelerator": "kvm",
      "ssh_username": "root",
      "ssh_password": "sonus",
      "disk_compression": "true",
      "qemu_binary": "qemu-kvm",
      "ssh_port": 22,
      "ssh_wait_timeout": "60m",
      "vm_name": "testvm",
      "net_device": "virtio-net",
      "disk_interface": "virtio",
      "boot_wait": "2s",
      "boot_command": [
      "1-force<enter>"
      ]

   }

}

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