Comment # 33 on bug 1202138 from Michal Suchanek

If you want to use KVM on Power it's more likely to work on POWER9. It uses the
new KVM code that upstream tests and actively develops.

Nonetheless, the virtualization team does not support it, and it may be broken
from time to time, and take some time until fixed. Better chances than POWR8,
though.

For PowerVM both HMC and Novalink is scriptable so it's very much possible to
create VMs on the fly but it requires platform-specific implementation.

For storage and snapshots FC storage and iSCSI storage is supported by PowerVM
making it possible to move the save/restore/... functionality outside of the
test machine. Either requires extra hardware, the default 4x1Gbit NIC is not
great for iSCSI, and FC is not available on most machines. It's also possible
to use some solution that saves/restores the system over network in a
platform-independent way, and it may be of use for testing baremetal as well if
it ever gets implemented. Also iSCSI can be used on most hardware.

Management tools that make creating LPARs easier do exist but we did not make
use of any so far, mostly because Orthos and openQA do the same thing in a
crosss-platform way. It is failing on Power, though. And s390 KVM is likely not
making full use of the hardware capabilities, either.