[vdsm] Dependencies for VDSM in the ppc64 platform

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Thu Feb 13 14:57:36 UTC 2014


On 02/13/2014 02:35 AM, Vinzenz Feenstra wrote:
> On 02/12/2014 06:20 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> On 02/12/2014 12:13 PM, Vitor de Lima wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  
>>> I have opened some bugs about VDSM dependencies that cannot be satisfied in
>>> the ppc64,
>>> these include newer versions of QEMU, libvirt and libguestfs.
>>>
>>>  
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063799
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1057557
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1064438
>>>
>>>  
>>> The first issue is the lack of a libguestfs package for Fedora Core 19 and 20,
>>> this is being worked on. Another issue is that in order to support the 3.4
>>> cluster compatibility level,
>>> VDSM requires a newer version of libvirt than the one shipped with FC19, which
>>> cannot be found anywhere for ppc64.
>>> The final issue is a bug in QEMU 1.4.2 that prevents VMs created through
>>> libvirt from running, this was fixed in
>>> later versions but also there is not a package for FC19 that has this fix.
>>>
>>>  
>>> So, what do you suggest? Should a virt-preview repo be created for ppc64? What
>>> about RHEL6?
>> virt-preview would be an option, if I had ppc64 hardware to do the builds :)
> ppc-koji? http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/

virt-preview often requires building a new library, then building a package
within virt-preview against that new library. There's no way to do that in one
shot using koji as far as I know, unless we request a custom tag and use
chain-build. And it would take a lot of work to adapt my scripts to work with
koji since I use mock locally now.

My recommendation is that if someone is sufficiently interested in ppc64
virt-preview that they can set it up themselves, and I'd be happy to help and
share my script.

- Cole


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