[Libguestfs] libguestfs on PPC64

[Richard W.M. Jones]

[Note I'm not bothering with 32 bit ppc any more since it is
effectively obsolete.]

Libguestfs now works on ppc64 using the 'direct' backend.  You will
need:

 - libguestfs 1.23.21 + 7f90aa0998

 - supermin 4.1.x (only tested with supermin-4.1.5-2.fc21.ppc64, but
   earlier versions should work)

 - qemu-system-ppc64 compiled from git (qemu 1.4 & 1.6 known to be broken)

 - kernel-3.10.10-200.fc19.ppc64, earlier versions should work

 - real ppc64 hardware

   There are multiple bugs which stop you installing Fedora/ppc64 on
   qemu-system-ppc64 running on x86-64.

Since Fedora 19 has dropped support for PR KVM, and since the Apple G5
I use for testing does not support real HV KVM, I could not test this
using KVM, only using TCG.

Next steps are:

 - run the full test suite and fix any problems (in progress)

 - get it working with the libvirt backend

All features should be fully supported except the UML backend won't
work (limitation of UML).

Rich.

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