[sos-devel] Are the IBM KVM policies still relevant for sos?

[Vasant Hegde]

On 4/6/21 11:11 PM, Jake Hunsaker wrote:
> There is currently a question in the GitHub repo [1][2] about if the IBM 
> PowerKVM and ZKVM policies are still relevant/desired in sos. This comes from 
> the fact that the policies have not been updated in some time, there are no 
> plugins currently tagged with `PowerKVMPlugin` or `ZKVMPlugin`, and the support 
> links included in the policies are both dead.
> 

We created `ibmkvm` policy when we initially started supporting KVM on Power 
(few year ago).
Now that all support is integrated into distros, I think its safe to remove.

I don't know the story behind zKVM and its status. I will check around.

@Frank, Any objection to drop `ibmkvm` plugin from sosreport ?


> 
> Are these policies still needed in sos? If so, what are the current support 
> links so that the policies may be updated? Are there any plugins that need to be 
> explicitly enabled for these policies (or new plugins created?). If they aren't, 
> we will likely end up dropping them in the next release (4.2).
> 
> 
> Alternatively, if there is an appropriate contact within IBM for sos questions 
> like this, please let the maintainers know.

I deal with sosreport support for Power. You can contact me for Power Linux 
related questions.
I'm not sure if we have someone dealing with sos on Z Linux. Let me check around.

-Vasant


> 
> [1] https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/2470
> [2] https://github.com/sosreport/sos/pull/2474
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - jake
>