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

[Sandro Bonazzola]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Michal Skrivanek <mskrivan at redhat.com>
wrote:

>
> > 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.
>

Ok, I opened a RFE to track it for whenever it will be possible to work on
it.



>
> >>>
> >>
> >> 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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> >>
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