Request for 3 PPC64 vm slaves for Jenkins

[Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 08:12:45AM +0100, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> Il 10/02/2014 23:15, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden ha scritto:
> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:12:35AM +0100, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> >> PPC64 support is going to be introduced as new feature in oVirt 3.4.0.
> >> So we should start delivering PPC64 packages for arch dependent packages for both EL6 and Fedora.
> >> VMs may be small enough since they should only build nightly vdsm and ovirt-host-deploy-offline: 1 core, 512Mb ram, 10Gb disk
> >> Software needed: minimal install + vdsm and ovirt-host-deploy-offline build deps.
> > 
> > Since we only have x86 hardware which run oVirt. Does it have to be a
> > PPC64 VM because I don't think we can host that right now.
> 
> AFAIK we can run qemu-system-ppc64 also on x86_64. Or am I missing something?

Can we also do this with oVirt as host? Ideally I'd prefer not having to
manually host a VM but have oVirt take care of it. Could a VDSM hook
possibly solve this if not built in?