[Engine-devel] RES: oVirt 3.4 test day - PPC support

[Yaniv Bronheim]

Yes, sounds like the overriding of vdsm.conf is an issue that we need to avoid
what I wonder is that it is not a regression, old versions of vdsm also overwrited the vdsm.conf file during deploy, so how is it harming us only now?

please open a bug on the overwriting issue

Thanks.

Yaniv Bronhaim.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vitor de Lima" <vitor.lima at eldorado.org.br>
> To: "Barak Azulay" <bazulay at redhat.com>, "Roy Golan" <rgolan at redhat.com>, "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan at redhat.com>
> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>, "VDSM Project Development" <vdsm-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 4:52:50 PM
> Subject: [Engine-devel] RES: oVirt 3.4 test day - PPC support
> 
> Maybe this is a problem with ovirt-host-deploy, it must be configured to
> avoid overwriting your vdsm.conf file. There are instructions in the wiki:
> 
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Vdsm_for_PPC64#Testing_the_PPC64_support
> 
> ________________________________________
> De: Barak Azulay [bazulay at redhat.com]
> Enviado: quinta-feira, 23 de janeiro de 2014 17:29
> Para: Vitor de Lima; Roy Golan; Michal Skrivanek
> Cc: VDSM Project Development; engine-devel
> Assunto: oVirt 3.4 test day - PPC support
> 
> 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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