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On 12/01/18 15:49, Paul Belanger wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:17:33AM +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>> Wu dniu 12.01.2018 o 01:09, Ian Wienand pisze:
>>> On 01/10/2018 08:41 PM, Gema Gomez wrote:
>>>> 1. Control-plane project that will host a nodepool builder with 8 vCPUs,
>>>> 8 GB RAM, 1TB storage on a Cinder volume for the image building scratch
>>>> space.
>>> Does this mean you're planning on using diskimage-builder to produce
>>> the images to run tests on?  I've seen occasional ARM things come by,
>>> but of course diskimage-builder doesn't have CI for it (yet :) so it's
>>> status is probably "unknown".
>>
>> I had a quick look at diskimage-builder tool.
>>
>> It looks to me that you always build MBR based image with one partition.
>> This will have to be changed as AArch64 is UEFI based platform (both
>> baremetal and VM) so disk needs to use GPT for partitioning and EFI
>> System Partition needs to be present (with grub-efi binary on it).
>>
> This is often the case when bringing new images online, that some changes to DIB
> will be required to support them. I suspect somebody with access to AArch64
> hardware will first need to run build-image.sh[1] and paste the build.log. That
> will build an image locally for you using our DIB elements.
> 
> [1] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/project-config/tree/tools/build-image.sh

Yep, that won't be an issue. Will do that on Monday.

>> I am aware that you like to build disk images on your own but have you
>> considered using virt-install with generated preseed/kickstart files? It
>> would move several arch related things (like bootloader) to be handled
>> by distribution rules instead of handling them again in code.
>>
> I don't believe we want to look at using a new tool to build all our images,
> switching to virt-install would be a large change. There are reasons why we
> build images from scratch and don't believe switching to virt-install help
> with that
>>
>> Sent a patch to make it choose proper grub package on aarch64.
>>
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Gema Gomez-Solano
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