You can't sensibly virtualize IBM POWER / PowerPC architecture on Intel CPUs. (Or even "at all"; I think the closest you get is qemu's PrEP which will not boot AIX.)
-----Original Message----- From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Ted Creedon Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 4:26 PM To: openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.20.1 on AIX 7.1 I just happen to have a spare dual xeon 64gb linux box that could be made available. and smaller MAC w/ parallels on it. I also have a dual 64gb xeon w/ a xeon phi card in it too. cost ~$3K with a little effort... IBM generally waives license fees for non profits. tedc ________________________________________ From: Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmas...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 10:24 AM To: Ted Creedon Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.20.1 on AIX 7.1 On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Ted Creedon <tcree...@easystreet.net> wrote: > why not use vm's for all non linux builds? If what you meant was for the foundation itself to pay for virtual build servers, all that takes if for the foundation to decide to spend real money. I presume they have considered that, but it might be worth asking the question explicitly if it has not been explicitly answered (I really have not been following the foundations activities). It might not even cost a lot (as I recall, there are various on-demand builder spin-up capabilities in at least some SCMs so it is free until the commit), but it is all work someone would have to research. I would not be at all surprised if the commercial companies providing support have not already moved in the direction of cloud based virtual builders (makes little sense to own a $10K server for occasional builds), but that is for their own customers. If you mean architecture emulation, it can be very slow (although might be acceptable), but the bigger problem may be licensing of the OS and the compilers. Last I knew AIX (where this started) is licensed software, and so is XLC (if using the IBM compiler is required for kernel modules). _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
