[Libvir] ia64 support
Hi Daniel, Yesterday in your libvirt presentation at Xen Summit, you listed sparc and ppc as architectures with explicit support in libvirt. I looked through the code to see how to add ia64 to that list, but I'm not seeing much mention of sparc or ppc except in the qemud backend. Is there somewhere else I should be looking? Thanks, Aron
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:24:28AM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
Hi Daniel,
Yesterday in your libvirt presentation at Xen Summit, you listed sparc and ppc as architectures with explicit support in libvirt. I looked through the code to see how to add ia64 to that list, but I'm not seeing much mention of sparc or ppc except in the qemud backend. Is there somewhere else I should be looking?
That wasn't listing supported archs from libvirt compilation, it was instead refering to the capabilities APIs. So it was listing archs that might be supported by the current hypervisor connection. eg, the archs that might be returned by a call to virConnectGetCapabilities() So with Xen on x86_64, it'd list 'x86_64' and 'i386', for Xen on i64 it'd list 'ia64', for QEMU it'd list i386, x86_64, ppc, sparc. For Xen we're basically pulling the info out of /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities We've already got ia64 support there - including a number of test cases to verify correct parsing $ ls tests/xencapsdata/*ia64* tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-be.caps tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64.caps tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-be.cpuinfo tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64.cpuinfo tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-be-hvm.caps tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-hvm.caps tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-be-hvm.cpuinfo tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-hvm.cpuinfo tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-be-hvm.xml tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-hvm.xml tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64-be.xml tests/xencapsdata/xen-ia64.xml Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
Daniel P. Berrange wrote: [Wed Apr 18 2007, 09:00:36AM EDT]
We've already got ia64 support there - including a number of test cases to verify correct parsing
Ok, thanks... that's what I thought looking at the source, so I was surprised to see it missing from your slide listing sparc and ppc.
From what you've said, it sounds like an inadvertent omission, not any specific missing functionality, right?
Thanks, Aron
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:12:49PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
Daniel P. Berrange wrote: [Wed Apr 18 2007, 09:00:36AM EDT]
We've already got ia64 support there - including a number of test cases to verify correct parsing
Ok, thanks... that's what I thought looking at the source, so I was surprised to see it missing from your slide listing sparc and ppc. From what you've said, it sounds like an inadvertent omission, not any specific missing functionality, right?
Yeah, that's correct. ia64 has parity with x86/x86_64 in this respect. I just didn't explain it too clearly because of the rushed timeslice for the preso. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
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