Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-MAIN All,
SUSE and openSUSE recently set up KVM virtual machines running on Power hardware to build packages for SLES12 for System z (or z Systems depending on how much you want to stay on IBM Marketing's good side) within the Open Build Service. It's not particularly fast, and there may be bugs in KVM yet, but if anyone is interesting in building Free/Libre Open Source packages for the mainframe we'd like you try it out at https://build.opensuse.org/ You will need to create a userid for OBS to use it from either the web interface or via the osc command line tool. The current version is at http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.1/noarch/osc-0.151.2-2.27.1.noarch.rpm It would be possible to set up a means for people to initiate "local" builds on their own Intel/AMD systems when using the "osc build" command. If you're interested in this, please let me know and I'll talk with the OBS team about making it happen. Please report any problems you encounter at https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/issues There's some documentation at the OBS portal: https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Build_service I created packages for THE and Regina to ensure things work. (I had to report a bug in KVM before things worked as expected for me.) Check them out at https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:markkp:THE Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
