Re: [ovirt-devel] Question about emulating ARM using oVirt

2014-12-15 Thread Michal Skrivanek

On Dec 15, 2014, at 12:37 , Richard Chapman  
wrote:

> Thank for the pointers I'll try it over xmas :)

also, if it helps you may want to check out some of the patches done by 
Eldorado guys when they were adding Power7 support. There were quite a few 
patches directly adding the support, but while I would agree the custom 
properties and hooks are best at this point it still can help you to understand 
all the different places…

Look at our gerrit, master branch, 2013 onwards, and filter these guys:
owner:"Leonardo Bianconi "
owner:"Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa "
owner:"Vitor de Lima "

Thanks,
michal

> 
> Chapman
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Itamar Heim [mailto:ih...@redhat.com] 
> Sent: 12 December 2014 13:09
> To: Richard Chapman; Devel@ovirt.org
> Cc: Michal Skrivanek; Dan Kenigsberg; Scott Herold; Barak Azulay
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Question about emulating ARM using oVirt
> 
> On 12/11/2014 06:16 AM, Richard Chapman wrote:
>> Hi and just wanted to say love oVirt.
>> 
>> I'm using oVirt 3.5 on Fedora20 to help with are devel/testing needs.
>> Are software runs on top of Linux both in Intel and ARM platforms.
>> While oVirt can handle very well the intel side of things I still need 
>> to run everything on ARM on real hardware. What I'm wondering is there 
>> a plan to support at least ARM emulation using QEMU now libVirt has 
>> been fixed.
>> 
>> Thank
>> 
>> Chapman
> 
> I can't say there is a real plan to do so at this point, but it shouldn't 
> block you from writing a custom hook changing the xml we pass to libvirt to 
> envoke qemu-kvm with arm instead of qemu-kvm.
> you can (ab)use maybe some existing behaviors/properties, as well as add more 
> of your own via custom properties (and for fancy - custom ui plugins to show 
> those custom properties in the proper dialogs)
> 
> I'd say that's a good start to adding such support as an add-on, before 
> considering it in the main code base.
> that's actually how we sometime develop a new feature - first "try it for 
> sanity" via a custom hook to understand its scope and the issues.

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Re: [ovirt-devel] Question about emulating ARM using oVirt

2014-12-15 Thread Richard Chapman
Thank for the pointers I'll try it over xmas :)

Chapman

-Original Message-
From: Itamar Heim [mailto:ih...@redhat.com] 
Sent: 12 December 2014 13:09
To: Richard Chapman; Devel@ovirt.org
Cc: Michal Skrivanek; Dan Kenigsberg; Scott Herold; Barak Azulay
Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Question about emulating ARM using oVirt

On 12/11/2014 06:16 AM, Richard Chapman wrote:
> Hi and just wanted to say love oVirt.
>
> I'm using oVirt 3.5 on Fedora20 to help with are devel/testing needs.
> Are software runs on top of Linux both in Intel and ARM platforms.
> While oVirt can handle very well the intel side of things I still need 
> to run everything on ARM on real hardware. What I'm wondering is there 
> a plan to support at least ARM emulation using QEMU now libVirt has 
> been fixed.
>
> Thank
>
> Chapman

I can't say there is a real plan to do so at this point, but it shouldn't block 
you from writing a custom hook changing the xml we pass to libvirt to envoke 
qemu-kvm with arm instead of qemu-kvm.
you can (ab)use maybe some existing behaviors/properties, as well as add more 
of your own via custom properties (and for fancy - custom ui plugins to show 
those custom properties in the proper dialogs)

I'd say that's a good start to adding such support as an add-on, before 
considering it in the main code base.
that's actually how we sometime develop a new feature - first "try it for 
sanity" via a custom hook to understand its scope and the issues.
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Re: [ovirt-devel] Question about emulating ARM using oVirt

2014-12-12 Thread Itamar Heim

On 12/11/2014 06:16 AM, Richard Chapman wrote:

Hi and just wanted to say love oVirt.

I’m using oVirt 3.5 on Fedora20 to help with are devel/testing needs.
Are software runs on top of Linux both in Intel and ARM platforms.
While oVirt can handle very well the intel side of things I still need
to run everything on ARM on real hardware. What I’m wondering is there a
plan to support at least ARM emulation using QEMU now libVirt has been
fixed.

Thank

Chapman….


I can't say there is a real plan to do so at this point, but it 
shouldn't block you from writing a custom hook changing the xml we pass 
to libvirt to envoke qemu-kvm with arm instead of qemu-kvm.
you can (ab)use maybe some existing behaviors/properties, as well as add 
more of your own via custom properties (and for fancy - custom ui 
plugins to show those custom properties in the proper dialogs)


I'd say that's a good start to adding such support as an add-on, before 
considering it in the main code base.
that's actually how we sometime develop a new feature - first "try it 
for sanity" via a custom hook to understand its scope and the issues.

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[ovirt-devel] Question about emulating ARM using oVirt

2014-12-11 Thread Richard Chapman
Hi and just wanted to say love oVirt.

I'm using oVirt 3.5 on Fedora20 to help with are devel/testing needs. Are 
software runs on top of Linux both in Intel and ARM platforms.  While oVirt can 
handle very well the intel side of things I still need to run everything on ARM 
on real hardware. What I'm wondering is there a plan to support at least ARM 
emulation using QEMU now libVirt has been fixed.

Thank

Chapman

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