[Users] oVirt Weekly Meeting Minutes

[Leonardo Bianconi]

Hi Sandro

These are the PPC features and its status:

Target   Status                   Description
3.4 - Under review - Architecture support when importing/exporting VM and Templates
3.4 - Under review - Ability to specify architecture in the OSInfo file
3.4 - Under review - Ability to specify supported video cards and display protocols in the OSInfo file
3.4 - Under review - Ability to specify watch dog in the OSInfo file
3.4 - Done             - Ability to specify hotplug of nic and disk in the OSInfo file
3.4 - Under review - Ability to search by architecture
3.4 - Under review - Create Cluster, VM and Templates for PPC64
3.4 - Under review - Add PPC64 Hosts
3.4 - Under review - Support for sPAPR VLAN and sPAPR VSCSI
3.4 - Under review - Run fake power hosts
3.4 - Under review - Obtain capabilities of PPC64 hosts
3.4 - Under review - Obtain the CPU topology of PPC64 hosts
3.4 - Under review - Ability to run power machines on x86 hosts

Some basic patches for PPC support were merged but not enough to enable any PPC feature. 
We are focused on the patches 18938, 19010 and 18220 (see below), since they are the base for all PPC features.

Engine
18938 (Initial support for alternative architectures)
    |_19010 (Architecture parameter on search backend)
    |_18220 (New OS for IBM POWER support)
        |_21503 (Architecture dependent commands)
            |_21522 (Avoid migration in ppc64)
                20294 (Architecture dependent commands)
                    |_18622 (sPAPR SCSI on PPC64 VMs)
                        |_20630 (Limit the number of SCSI and VirtIO blk devices)
        |_17972 (Show only compatible OSes)
            |_18347 (OS type validation)
            |_20667 (Fix VM creation with blank template)
            |_18702 (Fill and check arch when importing VM and Template)
                |_19012 (OVF import for multiple architectures)
        |_18226 (Cluster and arch related changes)
            |_19132 (Prevent arch mismatches in the FE)
            |_18227 (Added arch support for VM and Template)
                |_19487 (Selection of incompatible templates)

VDSM
19395 (Hardware information about POWER hosts)
    |_17437 (Adding ppc64 handling to getVdsCaps)
        |_19396 (Report fake capabilities)
            |_18718 (Create VMs for the POWER architecture)
        |_19875 (Handling topology for ppc64)


Regards
Leonardo Bianconi

Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:14:37 +0100
From: Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
To: "Users at ovirt.org" <Users at ovirt.org>, engine-devel
        <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
Subject: [Engine-devel] oVirt PPC status update
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Hi,
anybody can report about PPC status for 3.3.2 and 3.4.0 target releases?
It would be nice having someone for PPC at ovirt-sync meeting from next week on, so please join :-)

Thanks,

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Sandro Bonazzola
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