Request for 3 PPC64 vm slaves for Jenkins

Sandro Bonazzola sbonazzo at redhat.com
Wed Feb 12 12:05:50 UTC 2014


Il 12/02/2014 12:46, Aline Manera ha scritto:
> 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?

For build purpose, VMs are enough thanks.
I'm not sure about the testing for Francesco Romani, maybe he'll reply



> 
>> 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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