[Libvir] Re: ia64 support

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:24:28AM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> Yesterday in your libvirt presentation at Xen
> Summit, you listed sparc and ppc as architectures
> with explicit support in libvirt.  I looked
> through the code to see how to add ia64 to that
> list, but I'm not seeing much mention of sparc or
> ppc except in the qemud backend.  Is there
> somewhere else I should be looking?

That wasn't listing supported archs from libvirt compilation, it was instead
refering to the capabilities APIs. So it was listing archs that might be 
supported by the current hypervisor connection. eg, the archs that might be 
returned by a call to

   virConnectGetCapabilities()

So with Xen on x86_64, it'd list  'x86_64' and 'i386', for Xen on i64 it'd
list 'ia64', for QEMU it'd list  i386, x86_64, ppc, sparc.

For Xen we're basically pulling the info out of 

  /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities

We've already got ia64 support there - including a number of test cases to
verify correct parsing

$ ls tests/xencapsdata/*ia64*
tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-be.caps         tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64.caps
tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-be.cpuinfo      tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64.cpuinfo
tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-be-hvm.caps     tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-hvm.caps
tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-be-hvm.cpuinfo  tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-hvm.cpuinfo
tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-be-hvm.xml      tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-hvm.xml
tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-be.xml          tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64.xml


Regards,
Dan.
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