Hi,
thank you for the info - from what I read I can only agree to:

"In order to build QEMU with RDMA support, we would need to have RDMA
devel packages installed on the build machine. My understanding is that,
for Ubuntu in general, IBM is going with MOFED drivers. However, in the
environment Canonical is building QEMU, there is no MOFED, as MOFED is
not a package supported by Canonical. If they build QEMU with RDMA
support in their environment, it will probably not work with MOFED RDMA
support."

I haven't checked what rdma dev lib your need in particular, but in general the 
assumption is correct we can and will only build against those packaged in the 
archive.
And that usually means what is published via http://www.openfabrics.org/

So what we can provide is (atm) libibverbs-dev at version 1.2.1-2ubuntu1
and librdmacm-dev at 1.1.0-2

Both are in main so no MIR will be needed to enable rdma.
Yet if you consider it useless since you want to drive it via MOFED there is no 
big reason to do so.

It is an ongoing issue of Openfabrics vs manufacturer libs, but if you think 
towards 18.04 you'll be good enabling and building this against the open libs 
(at that time) I still see no big reason why this should be Ubuntu only.
Especially since you target 18.04 (and not 17.10) timing should be ok. So I'd 
kindly ask you to open a bug with Debian to enable it and report the bug number 
there.


** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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