[Engine-devel] oVirt 3.4 test day - PPC support
Barak Azulay
bazulay at redhat.com
Thu Jan 23 19:29:37 UTC 2014
Hi,
I tried to test various engine features related to PPC support,
However since I don't have a real Power PC HW I tried using the fake PPC configuration introduced by http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/18718
So I added the following configuration to /etc/vdsm/vdsm.conf on a x86_64 host:
fake_kvm_support=true
fake_kvm_architecture=ppc64
And indeed it looked successful as you can see below
[root at bazulay1 ~]# vdsClient -s 0 getVdsCaps | grep -i cpu
cpuCores = '4'
cpuFlags = 'powernv,model_POWER7_v2.3'
cpuModel = 'POWER 7 (fake)'
cpuSockets = '1'
cpuSpeed = '3401.000'
cpuThreads = '8'
However after creating the appropriate cluster:
CPU Architecture = ppc64
CPU name = IBM POWER 7* (meaning I tried all IBM POWER 7... cpus)
Adding the host always ended in non operational status with the error:
"Host bazulay1 has architecture x86_64 and cannot join Cluster TESTDAY-CLUSTER which has architecture ppc64."
Thanks
Barak Azulay
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