Re: Unique ppc64el virtual machines available for free

2014-08-29 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
On 08/29/2014 12:08 PM, Gasha wrote: But yes, it is better than not running at all... Indeed; it seems that was the intent of the author, as he acknowledges several limitations on the patch. -- Mauricio Faria de Oliveira IBM Linux Technology Center -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-

Re: Unique ppc64el virtual machines available for free

2014-08-29 Thread Gasha
Thanks, Our p710 is not really a production, but still i dont want to mess with firmware and/or IVM yet. There are lot of other things to do with ppc besides endianness :) On-the-fly interrupt patching isn't going back to vmware/virtualbox type of world ? But yes, it is better than not runni

Re: Unique ppc64el virtual machines available for free

2014-08-29 Thread Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
On 08/29/2014 05:08 AM, Gasha wrote: Is there a way to get image, and try to run it on p710 lpar ? For the image, you can probably debootstrap (at least --variant=buildd). For the P710 LPAR, 'probably' not (not easily). The little-endian mode on IBM POWER processor/systems is 'supported' from

Re: Unique ppc64el virtual machines available for free

2014-08-29 Thread Gasha
Hi, Is there a way to get image, and try to run it on p710 lpar ? G On 08/28/2014 09:24 PM, Breno Leitao wrote: Folks, You can be able to get access to a unique ppc64el virtual machine on the openPower mini cloud. This is an easy, free and fast way to have access to the ppc64el unique virtua

Unique ppc64el virtual machines available for free

2014-08-28 Thread Breno Leitao
Folks, You can be able to get access to a unique ppc64el virtual machine on the openPower mini cloud. This is an easy, free and fast way to have access to the ppc64el unique virtual machine. At the moment, you can request access to have a Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora OS virtual machines. Regards,