On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:17:33AM +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > Wu dniu 12.01.2018 o 01:09, Ian Wienand pisze: > > On 01/10/2018 08:41 PM, Gema Gomez wrote: > >> 1. Control-plane project that will host a nodepool builder with 8 vCPUs, > >> 8 GB RAM, 1TB storage on a Cinder volume for the image building scratch > >> space. > > Does this mean you're planning on using diskimage-builder to produce > > the images to run tests on? I've seen occasional ARM things come by, > > but of course diskimage-builder doesn't have CI for it (yet :) so it's > > status is probably "unknown". > > I had a quick look at diskimage-builder tool. > > It looks to me that you always build MBR based image with one partition. > This will have to be changed as AArch64 is UEFI based platform (both > baremetal and VM) so disk needs to use GPT for partitioning and EFI > System Partition needs to be present (with grub-efi binary on it). > This is often the case when bringing new images online, that some changes to DIB will be required to support them. I suspect somebody with access to AArch64 hardware will first need to run build-image.sh[1] and paste the build.log. That will build an image locally for you using our DIB elements.
[1] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/project-config/tree/tools/build-image.sh > I am aware that you like to build disk images on your own but have you > considered using virt-install with generated preseed/kickstart files? It > would move several arch related things (like bootloader) to be handled > by distribution rules instead of handling them again in code. > I don't believe we want to look at using a new tool to build all our images, switching to virt-install would be a large change. There are reasons why we build images from scratch and don't believe switching to virt-install help with that. > > Sent a patch to make it choose proper grub package on aarch64. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-Infra mailing list > OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
