RHEL 8.4 is out! See the official announcement and the release notes.
KVM is supported via Advanced Virtualization, and provides
- QEMU v5.2, supporting virtio-fs on IBM Z
- libvirt v7.0
Furthermore, RHEL 8.4 now supports graphical installation for guest installs. Just add the highlighted arguments to your virt-install command line for an RHEL 8.4 install on an RHEL 8.4 KVM host:
virt-install --input keyboard,bus=virtio --input mouse,bus=virtio \
--graphics vnc --video virtio --disk size=8 --memory 2048 --name rhel84 \
--cdrom /var/lib/libvirt/images/RHEL-8.4.0-20210503.1-s390x-dvd1.iso
And the installation will enter the fancy graphical installer:
Make sure to have package virt-viewer installed on the host, and X forwarding enabled (option -X for ssh).
This new support also allows graphical installs started in cockpit:
