This is an image meant to be used as a generic base image for KVM based hypervisors. It is mainly used with Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) or Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP). Using this type of image with other types of hypervisors or with cloud providers is not supported.
To be usable in common environments, it is provided in the qcow2 format and has cloud-init installed and enabled.
dracut-config-rescue is excluded from the image, because the boot loader
entry it provides is broken.
The environments this image is meant to be used in usually don't require any
specialized firmware. Thus, in order to keep the resulting image size small,
all -firmware packages are excluded. An exception is the linux-firmware
package, which cannot be excluded because the kernel package depends on it.
The most common way to consume official Red Hat content using this type of image is via Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM) (Red Hat Satellite / Red Hat CDN).