livemedia-creator: RHEL9 only supports qemu-kvm

Return an error if --arch is passed, and drop the mapping to
qemu-system-<arch> from installer.py and replace it with
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm

Resolves: rhbz#1955674

lorax.spec

@@ -103,13 +103,12 @@ Includes the full html documentation for lorax, livemedia-creator, and the pylor
 %package lmc-virt
 Summary:  livemedia-creator libvirt dependencies
 Requires: lorax = %{version}-%{release}
-Requires: qemu
+Requires: qemu-kvm
 
 # Fedora edk2 builds currently only support these arches
 %ifarch %{ix86} x86_64 %{arm} aarch64
 Requires: edk2-ovmf
 %endif
-Recommends: qemu-kvm
 
 %description lmc-virt
 Additional dependencies required by livemedia-creator when using it with qemu.

src/pylorax/creator.py

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ from pylorax.sysutils import joinpaths, remove
 
 
 # Default parameters for rebuilding initramfs, override with --dracut-arg or --dracut-conf
-DRACUT_DEFAULT = ["--xz", "--add", "livenet dmsquash-live dmsquash-live-ntfs convertfs pollcdrom qemu qemu-net",
+DRACUT_DEFAULT = ["--xz", "--add", "livenet dmsquash-live convertfs pollcdrom qemu qemu-net",
                   "--omit", "plymouth", "--no-hostonly", "--debug", "--no-early-microcode"]
 
 RUNTIME = "images/install.img"

src/pylorax/installer.py

@@ -135,14 +135,6 @@ class QEMUInstall(object):
     """
     Run qemu using an iso and a kickstart
     """
-    # Mapping of arch to qemu command
-    QEMU_CMDS = {"x86_64":  "qemu-system-x86_64",
-                 "i386":    "qemu-system-i386",
-                 "arm":     "qemu-system-arm",
-                 "aarch64": "qemu-system-aarch64",
-                 "ppc64le": "qemu-system-ppc64"
-                }
-
     def __init__(self, opts, iso, ks_paths, disk_img, img_size=2048,
                  kernel_args=None, memory=1024, vcpus=None, vnc=None, arch=None,
                  cancel_func=None, virtio_host="127.0.0.1", virtio_port=6080,
@@ -160,7 +152,7 @@ class QEMUInstall(object):
         :param int memory: Amount of RAM to assign to the virt, in MiB
         :param int vcpus: Number of virtual cpus
         :param str vnc: Arguments to pass to qemu -display
-        :param str arch: Optional architecture to use in the virt
+        :param str arch: Unsupported in RHEL9
         :param cancel_func: Function that returns True if the installation fails
         :type cancel_func: function
         :param str virtio_host: Hostname to connect virtio log to
@@ -169,9 +161,10 @@ class QEMUInstall(object):
         :param bool boot_uefi: Use OVMF to boot the VM in UEFI mode
         :param str ovmf_path: Path to the OVMF firmware
         """
-        # Lookup qemu-system- for arch if passed, or try to guess using host arch
+        # RHEL9 only supports 1 path for the qemu-kvm binary
-        qemu_cmd = [self.QEMU_CMDS.get(arch or os.uname().machine, "qemu-system-"+os.uname().machine)]
+        qemu_cmd = ["/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm", "-cpu", "host"]
-        if not os.path.exists("/usr/bin/"+qemu_cmd[0]):
+
+        if not os.path.exists(qemu_cmd[0]):
             raise InstallError("%s does not exist, cannot run qemu" % qemu_cmd[0])
 
         qemu_cmd += ["-no-user-config"]
@@ -228,6 +221,9 @@ class QEMUInstall(object):
         log.info("qemu %s", display_args)
         qemu_cmd += ["-nographic", "-monitor", "none", "-serial", "null", "-display", display_args ]
 
+        # Setup virtio networking
+        qemu_cmd += ["-netdev", "user,id=n1", "-device", "virtio-net-pci,netdev=n1"]
+
         # Setup the virtio log port
         qemu_cmd += ["-device", "virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0"]
         qemu_cmd += ["-device", "virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0"

src/sbin/livemedia-creator

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 import logging
 log = logging.getLogger("livemedia-creator")
 
-import glob
 import os
 import sys
 import tempfile
@@ -84,8 +83,8 @@ def main():
         errors.append("the volume id cannot be longer than 32 characters")
 
     if is_install and not opts.no_virt \
-       and not any(glob.glob("/usr/bin/qemu-system-*")):
+       and not os.path.exists("/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm"):
-        errors.append("qemu needs to be installed.")
+        errors.append("qemu-kvm needs to be installed.")
 
     if is_install and opts.no_virt \
        and not os.path.exists("/usr/sbin/anaconda"):
@@ -145,6 +144,9 @@ def main():
             if not os.path.exists(joinpaths(opts.ovmf_path, f)):
                 errors.append("OVMF secure boot firmware file %s is missing from %s" % (f, opts.ovmf_path))
 
+    if opts.arch != None:
+        errors.append("RHEL9 only support virt for the host arch.")
+
     if os.getuid() != 0:
         errors.append("You need to run this as root")