Thank you all for the valuable informations. So I will try with one compute node which has qemu as libvirt_type in nova.conf and then I hope I can host ppc64 VM's on that node. On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:47 PM Sean Mooney <smooney at redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2018-11-19 at 14:48 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > > On 11/19/2018 10:25 AM, Yedhu Sastri wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > > > I have some use-cases which I want to test in PowerPC > > > architecture(ppc64). As I dont have any Power machines I would like to > > > try it with ppc64 VM's. Is it possible to run these kind of VM's on my > > > OpenStack cluster(Queens) which runs on X86_64 architecture nodes(OS > > > RHEL 7)?? > > > > > > I set the image property architecture=ppc64 to the ppc64 image I > > > uploaded to glance but no success in launching VM with those images. I > > > am using KVM as hypervisor(qemu 2.10.0) in my compute nodes and I > think > > > it is not built to support power architecture. For testing without > > > OpenStack I manually built qemu on a x86_64 host with ppc64 > > > support(qemu-ppc64) and then I am able to host the ppc64 VM. But I > dont > > > know how to do this on my OpenStack cluster. Whether I need to > manually > > > build qemu on compute nodes with ppc64 support or I need to add some > > > lines in my nova.conf to do this?? Any help to solve this issue would > be > > > much appreciated. > > > > I think that within an OpenStack cluster you'd have to dedicate a whole > > compute node to running ppc64 and have it advertise the architecture as > > ppc64. Then when you ask for "architecture=ppc64" it should land on > > that node. > you know it says it for arm but you might be able to do this by setting > hw_machine_type > https://github.com/openstack/glance/blob/master/etc/metadefs/compute-libvirt-image.json#L34 > i know you can set the hw_machine_type to set teh default for all instace > on a host > > https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/configuration/config.html#libvirt.hw_machine_type > but i can rememebr it image property is alys used or if its just used for > arm as the docs suggest. > > the hypervisor_type in the image should be set to qemu to make sure you > avoid the kvm hosts as they will not work > for cpu emulation. > > > > > > If this is for "development, testing or migration of applications to > > Power" have you checked out these people? They provide free Power VMs. > > > > http://openpower.ic.unicamp.br/minicloud/ > > > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > > Post to : openstack at lists.openstack.org > > Unsubscribe : > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack at lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > -- Thank you for your time and have a nice day, With kind regards, Yedhu Sastri -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20181120/c4e9fb80/attachment.html>