On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 04:45:43PM +0000, Punith Kenchappa wrote:
Hi Richard and the libguestfs team,
We are currently using libguestfs as part of our automated build pipeline (via Bazel) and rely on pulling the pre-built fixed appliance tarballs from [http:// libguestfs.org/download/binaries/appliance/](http://libguestfs.org/download/ binaries/appliance/).
We are expanding our support to the ppc64le architecture, but noticed that there are no official pre-built ppc64le appliance tarballs published in the upstream binaries directory.
Could we request that ppc64le tarballs be published alongside the existing amd64/x86_64 appliances for future releases?
That's quite a lot of work. You could build them yourselves just by running 'libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance'. See: https://libguestfs.org/libguestfs-make-fixed-appliance.1.html
We understand that publishing multi-architecture binaries often comes down to CI/CD limitations or a lack of dedicated hardware. If there are any limitations preventing the project from building and hosting ppc64le appliances, please let us know. We would be happy to offer our support—whether that involves contributing build scripts, testing the ppc64leartifacts, or helping provide/ sponsor the necessary ppc64le build runner infrastructure to make this possible.
Unfortunately building them would still involve time and coordination. I think it's better if IBM builds them when needed. Note if you're using a typical distro like RHEL, Fedora, Debian, etc then there's no need to use the fixed appliance. libguestfs will build an appliance itself on demand. Rich.
Thank you for your time and for maintaining such a critical tool.
Best regards,
Punith Kenchappa Email: pkenchap@redhat.com Partner engineer (IBM)
-- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org