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"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote on 05/19/2015 04:56:17 
PM:

> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" 
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: 05/19/2015 05:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] libvirt: _do_quality_warnings and 
> the hypervisor support matrix
> 
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 04:41:40PM +0200, Markus Zoeller wrote:
> > The libvirt driver logs a warning if:
> >     hostarch not in (arch.I686, arch.X86_64))
> > The warning when I start the libvirt driver on system z (arch.S390X) 
> > will be:
> >     "The libvirt driver is not tested on kvm/s390x by the OpenStack 
> >     project and thus its quality can not be ensured. For more 
> >     information, see: 
> >     https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix"
> > 
> > I'm not quite sure if I understand that correctly. Should this be a
> > hint that "arch.I686, arch.X86_64" is the assumed "default"?
> > Or am I supposed to add the architecture "S390X" to this method 
because
> > this platform is listed in the hypervisor support matrix?
> > I want to avoid that customers will get a bad feeling because of the 
> > warning after starting the nova libvirt driver on a system z platform.
> > 
> > Note: We are still working on the CI for nova
> 
> In the wiki page we describe 3 groups of drives, those with CI run
> by the OpenStack project (Group A), those with CI run by 3rd party
> vendors (Group B) and those with no CI at all (Group C)
> 
>   
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix#Driver_Testing_Status

> 
> The _do_quality_warnings method is intended to print a warning for
> any libvirt driver combination that is in Group C.
> 
> After S390(x) has a 3rd party CI system running regularly & reasonably
> reliably, then you can submit a change to add S390X to the architecture
> list in _do_quality_warnings.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel

Thanks for the clarification Daniel.

Regards,
Markus Zoeller (markus_z)