On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 13:16:53 +0200 Barak Korren <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24 November 2017 at 11:05, Viktor Mihajlovski > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 21.11.2017 11:26, Dan Horák wrote: > > [...] > >>> qemu s390x emulation does not work with code compiled for z12. > >>> Would a real virtual machine be what you need? > >>> The Fedora team DOES have access to a z13. Not sure how much > >>> resources are available, but can you contact Dan Horak (on cc) if > >>> there is enough spare capacity. > >> > >> Christian is right, we have a publicly accessible guest running > >> Fedora on the Marist College z13 mainframe. It's currently used by > >> ~5 projects (for example glibc and qemu) as their build and CI > >> host, so adding another project depends how intensive ovirt's > >> usage would be. > > As a first step one could only build the packages needed for the KVM > > host. At this point in time that would be vdsm and ovirt-host, both > > are building rather quickly. > > It should be possible to ensure that only these are built on a s390 > > system using appropriate node filters. > > [...] > > We can get more accurate data by looking at the ppc64c build history > (We support ppc64le only for hypervisor usage, similar to what is > intended for s390). > Here is the history for vdsm: > http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/vdsm_master_build-artifacts-el7-ppc64le/buildTimeTrend > (~20 builds a day taking 1-2 minutes each) > And here is the one for ovirt-host: > http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-host_master_check-patch-el7-ppc64le/buildTimeTrend > (only 1 build in history, taking 3-4 minutes) > > Looking at what else we have building on ppc64le: > http://jenkins.ovirt.org/search/?q=master_build-artifacts-el7-ppc64le > I can also see ioprocess with is a vdsm dependency, and the SDK which > is probably not really needed. > So for ioprocess: > http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ioprocess_master_build-artifacts-el7-ppc64le/buildTimeTrend > I'd say its very rarely built. > > So we end up with ~20 1-2 minute builds a day (Timed but the amount of > Fedora versions we want to support, but what will probably be just > one), with the rest being a statistical error... > > I wonder about sharing a VM with other project though. We do use mock > for running the build script so the build itself should be fairly > isolated, but we have some of our own wrapper scripts around mock that > do things trying to keep build dependencies in the chroot cache over > time. We're also incompatible with mock's new systemd-nspawn backend, > so we force it to work with the older chroot-based backend. If other > projects are using mock as well, I wonder if we may end up with race > conditions arising from shared use of /var/lib/mock. it should work fine > Bottom line - we may end up being a little noisy neighbours if we > share a VM, but we can try that and see what happens, how to we move > foreward with trying that? ok, I'm pretty sure we can make it work :-) Please send me your public SSH key and preferred username, then I'll set up you an account for you and we can work on the remaining details. Dan _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
