By the way:

RHEL 7.7 (Update 7) was released on August 6, 2019.  

[root@clusterdev01 ~]# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm --version
QEMU emulator version 1.5.3 (qemu-kvm-1.5.3-167.el7_7.1), Copyright (c) 
2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard

The version of the QEMU emulator it uses was released on August 27, 2013. 
The current version of QEMU is 4.1.0


On Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 5:51:55 PM UTC-4, Richard Achmatowicz 
wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I have a physical RHEL 7.7 host with libvir and KVM installed:
>
> [root@clusterdev01 ~]# more /etc/redhat-release 
>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.7 (Maipo)
>
>
> [root@clusterdev01 ~]# virsh version --daemon
>> Compiled against library: libvirt 4.5.0
>> Using library: libvirt 4.5.0
>> Using API: QEMU 4.5.0
>> Running hypervisor: QEMU 1.5.3
>> Running against daemon: 4.5.0
>
>
> [root@clusterdev01 ~]# yum list installed '*qemu*'
>> Installed Packages
>> ipxe-roms-qemu.noarch                                                    
>> 20180825-2.git133f4c.el7                                        
>>  @rhel-7-server-rpms
>> libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu.x86_64                                        
>> 4.5.0-23.el7_7.1                                                
>>  @rhel-7-server-rpms
>> qemu-img.x86_64                                                          
>> 10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.1                                            
>>  @rhel-7-server-rpms
>> qemu-kvm.x86_64                                                          
>> 10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.1                                            
>>  @rhel-7-server-rpms
>> qemu-kvm-common.x86_64                                                  
>>  10:1.5.3-167.el7_7.1                                            
>>  @rhel-7-server-rpms
>>
>
> I'm following the instructions listed in 
> https://coreos.com/os/docs/latest/booting-with-libvirt.html to install 
> Container Linux on this physical host.
>
> After creating the domain.xml configuration, as per the instructions, 
> starting the VM fails:
>
> [root@clusterdev01 ~]# virsh start container-linux1 
>> error: Failed to start domain container-linux1
>> error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 
>> qemu-kvm: -fw_cfg: invalid option
>
>
> From a search, I see that the issue was discussed here: 
> https://github.com/openshift/installer/issues/455 and here: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1674422 and both issues were 
> closed.
>
> I saw that a suggested workaround to this is to install the version of 
> qemu-kvm included in RedHat Virtualization, namely qemu-kvm-rhev, but that 
> doing so is not supported: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/629513
>
> To me, this looks like running Container Linux on RHEL 7.7 with libvirt is 
> broken, which isn't great as I wanted to install OpenShift on these hosts.
>
> Any ideas on the best way to get around this issue?
>
> Richard
>

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