[ovirt-devel] CentOS Virt SIG - aarch 64 and ppc64le support

[Michal Skrivanek]

> On 14 Sep 2016, at 11:06, Martin Polednik <mpolednik at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 14/09/16 10:42 +0200, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> within CentOS Virt SIG interest in having ppc64le and aarch64 as supported
>>> architecture in oVirt has raised.
>>> Packages from oVirt 4.0.2 has been built for both architectures for
>>> hypervisor host side.
>>> You can find the rpms in the cbs repositories waiting to be signed and
>>> published to mirrors here:
>>> 
>>> - QEMU and deps: https://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt7-kvm-common-release/
>>> - oVirt Common deps: https://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt7-ovirt-common-
>>> release/
>>> - oVirt 4.0 specific packages: https://cbs.centos.
>>> org/repos/virt7-ovirt-40-release/
>>> 
>>> While I'm pretty sure ppc64le will work out of the box I think we're
>>> missing something on engine side in order to fully support aarch64.
>>> Michal, Francesco, can you open relevant BZs in order to get aarch64 fully
>>> supported?

aarch64 is not supported and there’s a long way to get there
it doesn’t hurt building it but people should not expect that it works at all. Because it doesn’t.
Having the packages ready is a benefit of course, when we get to that we will have all the bricks ready and we can start on making it work. But I can’t say when that will happen.

>>> 
>> 
>> Michal, Francesco, any feedback? News?
> 
> The virt stack is still working on aarch64, I believe it doesn't make
> sense to try and start the work from oVirt's POV before CentOS 7.3 is
> out.
> 
> That being said, I believe aarch64 support is a huge feature that'll
> take a while to get to a point where we can start submitting bugs. No
> news in that regard.
> 
>> 
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