Currently, OpenShift Virtualization only supports x86 architectures. Red Hat IT has numerous requirements to support Arm virtual machines, including:
- Engineering Software Pipeline for RHEL Arm composes (via Brew)
- Nested OpenShift Arm clusters (Hypershift on KubeVirt) for QE workloads
- Beaker test systems
- General purpose IT application workloads requiring RHEL VMs (IdM, Squid proxies, web tiers [Apache/NGINX], DB servers, etcs).

Our on-prem Arm servers are typically Ampere (ARMv8.2+). The only options we have available for running Arm VMs are on straight RHEL/KVM/LibVirt machines with limited management capabilities. AWS Graviton instances are an option for some cloud-friendly workloads, but we need an on-premise solution.

Given Arm support is already on the OpenShift Virtualization roadmap, the ask here is to raise the priority to support Engineering's own workloads.  We are happy to help qualify this capability once available within OCP Virt.

Please let us know if there are further questions.

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