RHEL 8.5 AV Released

RHEL 8.5 Advanced Virtualization (AV) is out! See the official announcement and the release notes.

KVM is supported via Advanced Virtualization, and provides

• QEMU v6.0, supporting virtio-fs on IBM Z
  
• libvirt v7.6
  

Furthermore, RHEL 8.5 AV now supports the possibility to persist mediated devices.

For a detailed list of Linux on Z-specific changes, also see this blog entry at Red Hat.

IBM-specific documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 is available at IBM Documentation here (in particular: Device Drivers, Features and Commands on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5).
See here on how to enable AV in RHEL 8 installs.