Aaron, We would certainly be targeting the development towards the larger VCL community. But, this development is possible when the PowerVM package is made available. I would assume a module that is similar to the existing KVM module should serve the purpose.
Regards, Sunil On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Aaron Peeler wrote: > Sunil, > > I think this would be a great addition. While I've not used Power7 or > PowerVM. I do know of some interest in VCL supporting this. > > The VCL community is looking for good committers. Would you be > interested in developing this, not only for UMBC but for the larger > VCL community? Given the work you've already done with Power7 and VCL > with xCAT, it appears you have a pretty good understanding of the VCL > code structure. > > Thanks, > Aaron > > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Sunil Venkatesh <suni...@umbc.edu> wrote: >> Dear all, >> As informed by Dr. Yesha, we @ UMBC are working on provisioning virtual >> nodes from the POWER7 blade. And, I wanted to update regarding the >> restrictions that I have come across in achieving the same. >> Virtualization with RedHat EL (RHEL) is not possible on POWER7 - >> >> 1. Latest version of RHEL - version 5 for power systems uses kernel version >> 2.6.18. However, KVM is only supported on kernels 2.6.24 or later. >> 2. Virtualization support in RHEL is available only under the x86 >> architectures. >> (http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/virtualization_support.html#virt_matrix) >> >> The only way, is to make use of PowerVM (an IBM product). I spoke to the IBM >> Customer representative and he confirmed that the only way to perform >> virtualization on POWER is to make use of PowerVM. However, VCL does not >> have support for provisioning over PowerVM. I would like to know if it would >> be feasible to procure PowerVM and integrate it with the VCL >> framework. Please let us know your comments regarding the same. >> Regards, >> Sunil > > > > -- > Aaron Peeler > Program Manager > Virtual Computing Lab > NC State University > > All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which > are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public > Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.
