Some virtual machines that used to work are invalid with RHEL 9 and newer hypervisors

Issue

• Virtual machines based on the pc-i440fx-rhel7.0.0 machine type will not run as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 9 and newer guests. RHEL 9 supports the pc-i440fx-rhel7.6.0 machine type.

• RHEL 10 introduces a new pc-i440fx-rhel10.0.0 machine type and removes support for all other i440fx machine types.

• Future RHEL versions might not support any i440fx machine type.

• Virtual machines with SPICE consoles and/or QXL video drivers also will not run as RHEL 9 and newer guests.

• Bugzilla 2172676 tracks official documentation improvements.