Hello, > Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Mai 2026 um 15:46 > Von: "Gary Buhrmaster" <[email protected]> > An: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: Reconsidering Fedora architecture support > > On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 1:28 PM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > But yes, the fact that we've lacked access to test machines for s390x > > for several years now is a big bummer. > IBM has made it easier for s390x access in the last years. You can create a Fedora community account and request Developer VMs in the LinuxONE OSS Community Cloud: https://airtable.com/appXw9nqkezp9CQKb/pagfUYwQrjHEmcy4b/form
But there is the fact, that only one ore two Community Maintainers can create VMs per open source community. I have to agree. Yes! That is a old z15 based system. Red Hat is based on z16 and the upgrade for the open source community is requested. Default there should be no problem to receive s390x access (the same as knowledge). > While it is clearly not as performant as real > hardware[0], I have had an available s390x > qemu emulated virtual machine running for > years (I just upgraded it to f44 last week). > > I no longer have the same need to test > obscure s390x issues that I once had, but > it did come in handy at the time, and I > have kept it around just in case that > need reoccurs. > > > > [0] And there are certainly artifacts with > an emulated system that one would not > experience with an actual s390x, but it > mostly works. > -- Best regards, Sarah Chair Linux Distributions Working Group > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new</[email protected]> -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
