Attach Nvidia Jetson as compute node to openstack (aarch64)

Pavlos Basaras pbasaras at gmail.com
Wed Nov 3 13:26:25 UTC 2021


Hello everyone,

I am relatively new to the community, thanks in advance for your time and
help.

I have an openstack cluster ready, working with several compute nodes based
on x86 architecture. My current installation is based on Ussuri.
I have recently acquired a couple of nvidia Jetson devices (
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-agx-xavier/)
which I want to connect to the cluster.

The arm cpu model name is  ARMv8 Processor rev 0 (v8l).
CPU flags on the arm architecture are different and hence egrep -c
'(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo is empty to the best of my knowledge.

However, i re-build the custom linux kernel (i.e, Tegra) of the Jetson
device, enabling the KVM module.
So once i used:

*sudo kvm-ok*
INFO: /dev/kvm exists
KVM acceleration can be used


*dmesg | grep -i kvm*
[    1.372478] kvm [1]: 16-bit VMID
[    1.372489] kvm [1]: IDMAP page: 80fa1000
[    1.372498] kvm [1]: HYP VA range: 4000000000:7fffffffff
[    1.374185] kvm [1]: Hyp mode initialized successfully
[    1.374299] kvm [1]: vgic-v2 at 3884000
[    1.374763] kvm [1]: vgic interrupt IRQ1
[    1.374790] kvm [1]: virtual timer IRQ4

*dmesg | grep -i 'CPU features'*
  [    0.687366] CPU features: detected feature: Privileged Access Never
  [    0.687372] CPU features: detected feature: LSE atomic instructions
  [    0.687378] CPU features: detected feature: User Access Override
  [    0.687385] CPU features: detected feature: 32-bit EL0 Support

Does this suffice to say that I can use KVM with libvirt for the nova
openstack?
The version of libvirt is 6.0.0.


>From  the nova logs i see the following with *virt_type = qemu*

WARNING nova.virt.libvirt.driver [-] The libvirt driver is not tested on
qemu/aarch64 by the OpenStack project and thus its quality can not be
ensured. For more information, see:
https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/user/support-matrix.html

And as it detects the aarch64 device:
CPU mode "host-passthrough" was chosen

If i try to launch an instance i get the following error with qemu
libvirt.libvirtError: unsupported configuration: CPU mode
'host-passthrough' for aarch64 qemu domain on aarch64 host is not supported
by hypervisor


where as i i use *virt_type= kvm* the error after trying to launch an
instance is
 libvirt.libvirtError: unsupported configuration: Emulator
'/usr/bin/qemu-system-aarch64' does not support virt type 'kvm'


Any advice on how to proceed?

all the best
Pavlos.
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