On 11/19/2018 10:25 AM, Yedhu Sastri wrote:
Hello All,
I have some use-cases which I want to test in PowerPC
architecture(ppc64). As I dont have any Power machines I would like to
try it with ppc64 VM's. Is it possible to run these kind of VM's on my
OpenStack cluster(Queens) which runs on X86_64 architecture nodes(OS
RHEL 7)??
I set the image property architecture=ppc64 to the ppc64 image I
uploaded to glance but no success in launching VM with those images. I
am using KVM as hypervisor(qemu 2.10.0) in my compute nodes and I think
it is not built to support power architecture. For testing without
OpenStack I manually built qemu on a x86_64 host with ppc64
support(qemu-ppc64) and then I am able to host the ppc64 VM. But I dont
know how to do this on my OpenStack cluster. Whether I need to manually
build qemu on compute nodes with ppc64 support or I need to add some
lines in my nova.conf to do this?? Any help to solve this issue would be
much appreciated.
I think that within an OpenStack cluster you'd have to dedicate a whole
compute node to running ppc64 and have it advertise the architecture as
ppc64. Then when you ask for "architecture=ppc64" it should land on
that node.
If this is for "development, testing or migration of applications to
Power" have you checked out these people? They provide free Power VMs.
http://openpower.ic.unicamp.br/minicloud/
Chris
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