[Fedora-xen] ppc64 xen support

[Spencer Shimko]

On 11/26/07 11:40 AM, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at 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 list

Thanks 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-ppc

Ah, 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,