On Feb 7, 2017, at 20:39 , Brandon Allbery wrote: > You can't sensibly virtualize IBM POWER / PowerPC architecture on Intel CPUs. > (Or even "at all"; I think the closest you get is qemu's PrEP which will not > boot AIX.)
Thank you Brandon! From what I read, Power-VM would probably do the trick. Alas, it seems to require a POWER host and be a proprietary product. Which is just what I meant when writing "just as hard to find". I'm not aware of any other solution. Well, supposedly you can rent AIX VMs in some clouds. But ultimately, Ben's got the killer argument. If we had the human resources, anything else could probably be sorted out. - Stephan > > -----Original Message----- > From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org] > On Behalf Of Ted Creedon > Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 4:26 PM > To: openafs-info@openafs.org > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.20.1 on AIX 7.1 > > I just happen to have a spare dual xeon 64gb linux box that could be made > available. > and smaller MAC w/ parallels on it. > > I also have a dual 64gb xeon w/ a xeon phi card in it too. cost ~$3K > > with a little effort... > > IBM generally waives license fees for non profits. > tedc > > ________________________________________ > From: Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmas...@gmail.com> > Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 10:24 AM > To: Ted Creedon > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.20.1 on AIX 7.1 > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Ted Creedon <tcree...@easystreet.net> wrote: >> why not use vm's for all non linux builds? > > If what you meant was for the foundation itself to pay for virtual build > servers, all that takes if for the foundation to decide to spend real money. > I presume they have considered that, but it might be worth asking the > question explicitly if it has not been explicitly answered (I really have not > been following the foundations activities). > > It might not even cost a lot (as I recall, there are various on-demand > builder spin-up capabilities in at least some SCMs so it is free until the > commit), but it is all work someone would have to research. > > I would not be at all surprised if the > commercial companies providing support > have not already moved in the direction > of cloud based virtual builders (makes > little sense to own a $10K server for > occasional builds), but that is for their own customers. > > If you mean architecture emulation, it can be very slow (although might be > acceptable), but the bigger problem may be licensing of the OS and the > compilers. Last I knew AIX (where this started) is licensed software, and so > is XLC (if using the IBM compiler is required for kernel modules). _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
