[ovirt-devel] [ARM64] Possiblity to support oVirt on ARM64

[Nir Soffer]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 5:04 PM Zhenyu Zheng <zhengzhenyulixi at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi oVirt,
>
> We are currently trying to make oVirt work on ARM64 platform, since I'm quite new to oVirt community, I'm wondering what is the current status about ARM64 support in the oVirt upstream, as I saw the oVirt Wikipedia page mentioned there is an ongoing efforts to support ARM platform. We have a small team here and we are willing to also help to make this work.

Hi Zhenyu,

I think this is a great idea, both supporting more hardware, and
enlarging the oVirt
community.

Regarding hardware support we depend mostly on libvirt and qemu, and I
don't know
that is the status. Adding relevant lists and people.

I don't know about any effort  on oVirt side, but last week I added
arm builds for
ovirt-imageio and it works:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nsoffer/ovirt-imageio-preview/build/1555705/

We have many dependendencies, but oVirt itself is mostly python and java, with
tiny bits in C or using ctypes, so it should not be too hard.

I think the first thing is getting some hardware for testing. Do you
have such hardware,
or have some contacts that can help to get hardware contribution for this?

Nir