Hi, I was looking for any information people may have on running Fedora 8 Xen on a PPC64 platform. Xen appears to support ppc64 but none of the Fedora pages seem to mention it and Fedora doesn''t have a ppc64 Xen kernel. Anyone taken a swing at this or have any thoughts on where I should focus my efforts? Thanks, Spencer
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:37:13AM -0500, Spencer Shimko wrote:> Hi, > > I was looking for any information people may have on running Fedora 8 Xen on > a PPC64 platform. Xen appears to support ppc64 but none of the Fedora pages > seem to mention it and Fedora doesn''t have a ppc64 Xen kernel.Libvirt & the tools stack is able to build on PPC & we''ve have patches to fix PPC portability issues. The main blocker is that we don''t have a PPC kernel for Xen that is usable. Without that we can''t build the Xen userspace.> Anyone taken a swing at this or have any thoughts on where I should focus my > efforts?You should probably ask on the Fedora PPC mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ppc Dan, -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
On 11/26/07 11:40 AM, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:37:13AM -0500, Spencer Shimko wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was looking for any information people may have on running Fedora 8 Xen on >> a PPC64 platform. Xen appears to support ppc64 but none of the Fedora pages >> seem to mention it and Fedora doesn''t have a ppc64 Xen kernel. > > Libvirt & the tools stack is able to build on PPC & we''ve have patches to > fix PPC portability issues. The main blocker is that we don''t have a PPC > kernel for Xen that is usable. Without that we can''t build the Xen userspace. > >> Anyone taken a swing at this or have any thoughts on where I should focus my >> efforts? > > You should probably ask on the Fedora PPC mailing listThanks Dan. The libvirt + tool stack is working fine as your described. Running qemu VMs works as advertised for x86 emulation. I had noticed the Xen userland components missing as well and it makes sense now. Guess I''ll focus on the kernel side for now.> > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ppcAh, another nice low-volume list :) I see your August thread in their archives: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/fedora-ppc/2007-August/001033.html I''m going to cross-post for now as responses might be of interest to subscribers of both lists. Any additional comments on the state of kernel-level Xen support from the PPC contingent? --Spencer> > Dan,