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On 12/20/2016 12:45 AM, Kevin Zhao wrote:
> Hello Nova,
>       Greetings from ARM and Linaro :D
>       This is Kevin Zhao from ARM. Nowadays Linaro and other
> contributors have submitted some patches to Nova community , fixing bugs
> for Nova running on AArch64. Now we can successfully running a OpenStack
> cluster on AArch64 and pass much of the tempest test. The
> virtuallization hypervisor is based on Libvirt+KVM.
>
>       Actually in Barcelona Keynote(interoperability Challenge
> <https://www.openstack.org/videos/video/openstack-interoperability-challenge-running-unmodified-apps-in-any-openstack-cloud>,
> at 10:30') one of the OpenStack interoperability cloud is from Linaro,
> all based on AArch64 machines.
>        I see there is a Nova support matrix
> <http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/support-matrix.html>. So my
> question is :
> *       what do we need to do, so that Nova can official support AArch64
> architecture? for example add AArch64 to this support matrix?*
>
>        Sincerely thanks for your help. Any of your response will be
> really appreciated.

Hi Kevin,

I think the first thing you would need to do is set up some sort of 
continuous integration system that can be notified by upstream patch 
changes/pushes and report results of Tempest testing against a build of 
OpenStack on AArch64 machines.

You can read about setting up third-party CI for this here:

http://docs.openstack.org/infra/system-config/

Best,
-jay