Re: [ovirt-devel] [ARM64] Possiblity to support oVirt on ARM64

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 09:06:42PM +0300, Nir Soffer wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 5:04 PM Zhenyu Zheng <zhengzhenyulixi@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi oVirt,
> >
> > We are currently trying to make oVirt work on ARM64 platform, since I'm 
> > quite new to oVirt community, I'm wondering what is the current status 
> > about ARM64 support in the oVirt upstream, as I saw the oVirt Wikipedia 
> > page mentioned there is an ongoing efforts to support ARM platform. We have 
> > a small team here and we are willing to also help to make this work.
> 
> Hi Zhenyu,
> 
> I think this is a great idea, both supporting more hardware, and
> enlarging the oVirt
> community.
> 
> Regarding hardware support we depend mostly on libvirt and qemu, and I
> don't know
> that is the status. Adding relevant lists and people.

libvirt and qemu both support aarch64 guests and hosts for years now,
as do various KVM mgmt apps, so I think its largely just a matter of
the oVirt code that needs porting and updating to deal with any aarch64
specific aspects.

Regards,
Daniel
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