Hi oVirt, We are currently trying to make oVirt work on ARM64 platform, since I'm quite new to oVirt community, I'm wondering what is the current status about ARM64 support in the oVirt upstream, as I saw the oVirt Wikipedia page mentioned there is an ongoing efforts to support ARM platform. We have a small team here and we are willing to also help to make this work.

Hi Nir, Thanks alot for the quick response and information, actually I also worked a little bit on libvirt and other from our team has experiences in qemu, those projects works OK on ARM platform, it is just the capability might be less when comparing to other platforms, for example, myself just added the getHost() capability for ARM64 in libvirt and now planning to work on compareCPU() API, after that we will have better migration workflow on ARM platform. For resources, actually, yes, I think we can provide those for oVirt community, could you tell me more details about what kind of resources are more suitable, our current resources are mostly VMs from public cloud, will that be OK? BR, Zhenyu On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 2:07 AM Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 5:04 PM Zhenyu Zheng <zhengzhenyulixi(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > > > > Hi oVirt, > > > > We are currently trying to make oVirt work on ARM64 platform, since I'm > quite new to oVirt community, I'm wondering what is the current status > about ARM64 support in the oVirt upstream, as I saw the oVirt Wikipedia > page mentioned there is an ongoing efforts to support ARM platform. We have > a small team here and we are willing to also help to make this work. > > Hi Zhenyu, > > I think this is a great idea, both supporting more hardware, and > enlarging the oVirt > community. > > Regarding hardware support we depend mostly on libvirt and qemu, and I > don't know > that is the status. Adding relevant lists and people. > > I don't know about any effort on oVirt side, but last week I added > arm builds for > ovirt-imageio and it works: > > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nsoffer/ovirt-imageio-preview/bui... > > We have many dependendencies, but oVirt itself is mostly python and java, > with > tiny bits in C or using ctypes, so it should not be too hard. > > I think the first thing is getting some hardware for testing. Do you > have such hardware, > or have some contacts that can help to get hardware contribution for this? > > Nir > >

On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 5:04 PM Zhenyu Zheng <zhengzhenyulixi(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > Hi oVirt, > > We are currently trying to make oVirt work on ARM64 platform, since I'm quite new to oVirt community, I'm wondering what is the current status about ARM64 support in the oVirt upstream, as I saw the oVirt Wikipedia page mentioned there is an ongoing efforts to support ARM platform. We have a small team here and we are willing to also help to make this work. Hi Zhenyu, I think this is a great idea, both supporting more hardware, and enlarging the oVirt community. Regarding hardware support we depend mostly on libvirt and qemu, and I don't know that is the status. Adding relevant lists and people.

Il giorno dom 19 lug 2020 alle ore 16:04 Zhenyu Zheng < zhengzhenyulixi(a)gmail.com&gt; ha scritto: > Hi oVirt, > > We are currently trying to make oVirt work on ARM64 platform, since I'm > quite new to oVirt community, I'm wondering what is the current status > about ARM64 support in the oVirt upstream, as I saw the oVirt Wikipedia > page mentioned there is an ongoing efforts to support ARM platform. We have > a small team here and we are willing to also help to make this work. > > Hi, nice to see this initiative. I'd like to loop you in with Joey Ma who also is working on porting to ARM. There's an ongoing effort for Open Euler Virt SIG about this: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdG8_uMt-IM&feature=youtu.be - https://gitee.com/openeuler/community/tree/master/sig/Virt Vincent Van der Kussen <https://twitter.com/vincentvdk> is also working on porting to ARM (https://twitter.com/kbsingh/status/335023164289601536) Dennis Gilmore <https://twitter.com/dgilmoreAU/status/1107747205283278848> reported success in running ovirt-engine on aarch64 too. It would be nice to see an interest group working together on this. -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/> *Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours. <https://mojo.redhat.com/docs/DOC-1199578>*