Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat

2024-02-26 Thread Gilad Berman 
Will be great to see it merged!
As a side note for those interested – Confluent worked as-is with no issues 
(and can work alongside xcat if needed)

Gilad Berman
HPC Architect, Lenovo EMEA
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From: Russell Jones 
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2024 3:53 PM
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat


Glad to know that worked! We have some GH nodes coming in as well. If we can 
stick to xcat we definitely want to do that.

Hope to see these changes merged and "officially" supported soon.




On 2/24/24 1:28 AM, Gilad Berman wrote:
THX for that! Indeed works 😊 (grace-hopper node, rhel9.3)

Gilad Berman
HPC Architect, Lenovo EMEA
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From: Markus Hilger 

Sent: Friday, February 23, 2024 6:43 PM
To: Gilad Berman ; xCAT Users 
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Cc: Matthew Alton 
Subject: AW: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat

Hi,

with https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/7257 arm deployment is pretty much 
working for stateless and stateful deployment via grub2.
On a x86 management node you can even cross-build arm stateless images.
Only discovery doesn't work for arm.

Feel free to test these changes.
I would like to merge these changes as alpha state arm support. I think 
stateless and stateful deployment covers 90% of use cases already 😉


​Mit freundlichen GrĂŒĂŸen / Kind regards


Markus Hilger



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Hi Gilad,



There are no immediate plans for arm. Our focus will be primarily on x86 whilst 
we are in a transitional state and clearing some of the backlogged issues. 
After we have fully established the maintenance of project, we will be 
determining what a longer-term roadmap looks like and how we plan to further 
develop xCAT.



Regards,

Matt.



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Any chance arm support is also being looked at?



Gilad Berman

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Good morning mailing list,



We, xCAT consortium, are working on various activities in the background to be 
able to maintain xCAT fully. We have introduced a new milestone of xCAT 2.17 
that will be our first maintenance release. The main objective of this release 
is to move RHEL9 and directly derived operating systems (Rocky, Alma, Oracle) 
into officially supported by xCAT.



RHEL9 support is being worked on under 
https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/7416. RHEL9 has been reliably 
deployed from xCAT but there are a couple of known bugs with workarounds we 
plan t

Re: [xcat-user] ubuntu 20 or 22 working for anyone

2024-02-26 Thread Matthew Alton via xCAT-user 
Hi Jeff,

"has anyone got a working deployment for ubuntu 20 or 22 or has everyone 
essentially given up on that for the time being?"

There are a couple of issues on Github where potential solutions have been 
discussed but making xCAT provision Ubuntu 20 or 22 is hacky at best and is 
unsupported in xCAT as it currently stands. There was an encouraging discussion 
on https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/6681 and some of the 
recommendations in that could work but I personally haven't had the time to be 
able to run through it. RHEL/Rocky/Alma operating systems are our focus in the 
short term, and these will carry the highest level of support and workability 
in xCAT.

"Will I save myself a lot of trouble if  we just go with CentOS 8 or 9?"

Outside RHEL, Rocky and Alma 8/9 carry the most support and, as of the next 
release, will have the disk image info included in xCAT to make them easier to 
work with. CentOS Stream hasn't really been adopted within the xCAT project and 
in theory it should work but I'd recommend using Rocky or Alma if you do not 
have a specific need for something in CentOS Stream.

Regards,
Matt.

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From: Jeff Berry 
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2024 10:23 AM
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Subject: [xcat-user] ubuntu 20 or 22 working for anyone

Good morning all,

has anyone got a working deployment for ubuntu 20 or 22 or has everyone 
essentially given up on that for the time being?   Will I save myself a lot of 
trouble if  we just go with CentOS 8 or 9?

Kind regards,

Jeff Berry, Computing Officer, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
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Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat

2024-02-26 Thread Russell Jones 
Glad to know that worked! We have some GH nodes coming in as well. If we 
can stick to xcat we definitely want to do that.


Hope to see these changes merged and "officially" supported soon.



On 2/24/24 1:28 AM, Gilad Berman wrote:


THX for that! Indeed works 😊 (grace-hopper node, rhel9.3)

*Gilad Berman *

HPC Architect, Lenovo EMEA

gber...@lenovo.com  +972-522554262

*From:* Markus Hilger 
*Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2024 6:43 PM
*To:* Gilad Berman ; xCAT Users Mailing list 


*Cc:* Matthew Alton 
*Subject:* AW: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat

Hi,

with https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/7257 arm deployment is 
pretty much working for stateless and stateful deployment via grub2.


On a x86 management node you can even cross-build arm stateless images.

Only discovery doesn't work for arm.

Feel free to test these changes.

I would like to merge these changes as alpha state arm support. I 
think stateless and stateful deployment covers 90% of use cases already 😉


​Mit freundlichen GrĂŒĂŸen / Kind regards

*Markus Hilger*





HPC Engineer





MEGWARE Computer Vertrieb und Service GmbH

Tel: +49 3722 528-47





Nordstraße 19

markus.hil...@megware.com 





09247 Chemnitz-Röhrsdorf, Germany

www.megware.com 





GeschĂ€ftsfĂŒhrer: AndrĂ© Singer, Axel Auweter





Amtsgericht: Chemnitz HRB 584



*Von:*Matthew Alton via xCAT-user 
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*An:* Gilad Berman ; xCAT Users Mailing list 


*Cc:* Matthew Alton 
*Betreff:* Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat

Hi Gilad,

There are no immediate plans for arm. Our focus will be primarily on 
x86 whilst we are in a transitional state and clearing some of the 
backlogged issues. After we have fully established the maintenance of 
project, we will be determining what a longer-term roadmap looks like 
and how we plan to further develop xCAT.


Regards,

Matt.

*Matthew Alton MBCS | **Research & Development Lead*





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*Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2024 10:56 AM
*To:* xCAT Users Mailing list 
*Cc:* Matthew Alton 
*Subject:* RE: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat

Any chance arm support is also being looked at?

*Gilad Berman *

HPC Architect, Lenovo EMEA

gber...@lenovo.com  +972-522554262

*From:* Matthew Alton via xCAT-user 
*Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2024 11:31 AM
*To:* xCAT Users Mailing list 
*Cc:* Matthew Alton 
*Subject:* Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat

Good morning mailing list,

We, xCAT consortium, are working on various activities in the 
background to be able to maintain xCAT fully. We have introduced a new 
milestone of xCAT 2.17 that will be our first maintenance release. The 
main objective of this release is to move RHEL9 and directly derived 
operating systems (Rocky, Alma, Oracle) into officially supported by xCAT.


RHEL9 support is being worked on under 
https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/7416. RHEL9 has been 
reliably deployed from xCAT but there are a couple of known bugs with 
workarounds we plan to fix. This week we have been merging several PRs 
relating to RHEL9 and some other useful low hanging fruit sort of fixes.


A full announcement will be made when all our testing is completed and 
we are ready to release 2.17.


Regards,

Matt.

*Matthew Alton MBCS | **Research & Development Lead*





*Phone:*



+44 (0)114 257 2200

*Mobile:*



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[xcat-user] ubuntu 20 or 22 working for anyone

2024-02-26 Thread Jeff Berry 
Good morning all,

has anyone got a working deployment for ubuntu 20 or 22 or has everyone 
essentially given up on that for the time being?   Will I save myself a lot of 
trouble if  we just go with CentOS 8 or 9?

Kind regards,

Jeff Berry, Computing Officer, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
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