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> From: Dean Troyer <dtroyer at gmail.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" 
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: 04/14/2016 08:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [all] [devstack] Adding example 
> "local.conf" files for testing?
> 
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Markus Zoeller <mzoeller at de.ibm.com> 
wrote:
> Let me know what you think: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/305967/
> 
> My only real concern is you've implied a structure that will 
> potentially have many combinations of configurations and those will 
> bitrot.  How different are x86 and s390 arch in local.conf? (I've 
> never seen an s390 local.conf!)  I do know there are few, if any, 
> differences between most ubuntu and fedora configs, we abstract most 
> of that out in the scripts.
> 
> I wonder if the grouping of configs might be better suited along usa-
> case lines?  nova-net vs neutron, single- vs multi-node, etc.
> 
> Thanks for getting this started!
> dt
> 
> -- 
> 
> Dean Troyer
> dtroyer at gmail.com


The main difference between x86 and s390x (system z) is that s390x
doesn't support nova-network and VNC|RDP|SPICE. Which means s390x
depends on Neutron and the "serial console". The rest should work
like on x86. I guess having an IF-ELSE block in a "local.conf" is 
crazy talk?

Regards, Markus Zoeller (markus_z)