Request for 3 PPC64 vm slaves for Jenkins

[Aline Manera]

On 02/12/2014 06:08 AM, Eyal Edri wrote:
> Maybe aline can help here?
> as you can see we also need POWER pc slaves, so if you can contribute
> a server which we can run ppc vms on, it will be great both for kimchi and oVirt.

Hi all,

I am going through the legal stuffs to get POWER machines from IBM 
available to ovirt community.
But in this first attempt, I am trying to get POWER vms and not a host 
POWER machine.

Sandro, Eyal: Do POWER vms work fine for your proposals? Or you need a 
host POWER machine?

> Eyal.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden" <ewoud+ovirt at kohlvanwijngaarden.nl>
>> To: infra at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:13:48 AM
>> Subject: Re: Request for 3 PPC64 vm slaves for Jenkins
>>
>> 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?
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