Hi Gilad, There are no immediate plans for arm. Our focus will be primarily on x86 whilst we are in a transitional state and clearing some of the backlogged issues. After we have fully established the maintenance of project, we will be determining what a longer-term roadmap looks like and how we plan to further develop xCAT.
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From: Gilad Berman <gber...@lenovo.com> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2024 10:56 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Matthew Alton <mal...@ocf.co.uk> Subject: RE: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat Any chance arm support is also being looked at? Gilad Berman HPC Architect, Lenovo EMEA gber...@lenovo.com<mailto:gber...@lenovo.com> +972-522554262 [cid:image001.png@01DA6649.A1A56DB0] From: Matthew Alton via xCAT-user <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2024 11:31 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Cc: Matthew Alton <mal...@ocf.co.uk<mailto:mal...@ocf.co.uk>> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat Good morning mailing list, We, xCAT consortium, are working on various activities in the background to be able to maintain xCAT fully. We have introduced a new milestone of xCAT 2.17 that will be our first maintenance release. The main objective of this release is to move RHEL9 and directly derived operating systems (Rocky, Alma, Oracle) into officially supported by xCAT. RHEL9 support is being worked on under https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/7416. RHEL9 has been reliably deployed from xCAT but there are a couple of known bugs with workarounds we plan to fix. This week we have been merging several PRs relating to RHEL9 and some other useful low hanging fruit sort of fixes. A full announcement will be made when all our testing is completed and we are ready to release 2.17. Regards, Matt. 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From: Imam Toufique <techie...@gmail.com<mailto:techie...@gmail.com>> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2024 5:25 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat I haven’t heard or seen any updates. Perhaps there is one in the horizon. Thanks Regards, Imam Toufique 213-700-5485 On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 7:02 AM Noah, Stuart via xCAT-user <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: Hello Markus, Are there any new updates on EL9 support since 1/11. I know that it hasn’t been much time but I’m trying to put a migration plan together to upgrade our older cluster including the OS. Thank you Sincerely, Stuart From: Imam Toufique <techie...@gmail.com<mailto:techie...@gmail.com>> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2024 10:46 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Subject: [External] Re: [xcat-user] RHEL9 support in xcat Hi all, thank you so much for your prompt responses. I wanted to try out rocky9 , that's why I was wondering. Markus, thanks for your valuable advice. Yeah, I wanted to get an idea about how 'ifcfg' would behave, you explained the ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart WARNING: New Sender You have not previously corresponded with this sender. ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerEnd Hi all, thank you so much for your prompt responses. I wanted to try out rocky9 , that's why I was wondering. Markus, thanks for your valuable advice. Yeah, I wanted to get an idea about how 'ifcfg' would behave, you explained the issue exactly. --IT On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 10:37 AM Markus Hilger <markus.hil...@megware.com<mailto:markus.hil...@megware.com>> wrote: Hi, yes, EL9 distros are working mostly fine. Officially EL9 is in alpha state right now. See: https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/wiki/XCAT_2.16.5_Release_Notes<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/wiki/XCAT_2.16.5_Release_Notes__;!!KOmnBZxC8_2BBQ!25BwoiPLOKWtPbLRQiEnPEYPnknXT57_gsd0f6_UtdrYX6kscFJJjsQs0FfYrHyebEaW7NZmvln8vCpGhZu7$> The next release will most probably move this to the next level, but it will take some more time. Please bear with us. Some special configs like nics.nicextraparms etc. do not work (because ifcfg is deprecated and nicextraparams is not using nmcli yet). But otherwise, management node installation and stateless/stateful node deployment is working fine. Some example default osimage definitions with alma9: # <xCAT data object stanza file> alma9-x86_64-install-compute: objtype=osimage imagetype=linux osarch=x86_64 osdistroname=rhels9-x86_64 osname=linux osvers=rhels9 otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/alma9/x86_64 pkgdir=/install/repos/almalinux/9/BaseOS/x86_64/os,/install/repos/almalinux/9/AppStream/x86_64/os,/install/repos/almalinux/9/CRB/x86_64/os,/install/repos/epel/9/Everything/x86_64 pkglist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels9.x86_64.pkglist profile=compute provmethod=install synclists=/install/custom/install/alma/compute.alma9.synclist template=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/rh/compute.rhels9.tmpl # <xCAT data object stanza file> alma9-x86_64-netboot-compute: objtype=osimage exlist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels9.x86_64.exlist imagetype=linux osarch=x86_64 osdistroname=rhels9-x86_64 osname=linux osvers=rhels9 otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/alma9/x86_64 permission=755 pkgdir=/install/repos/almalinux/9/BaseOS/x86_64/os,/install/repos/almalinux/9/AppStream/x86_64/os,/install/repos/almalinux/9/CRB/x86_64/os,/install/repos/epel/9/Everything/x86_64 pkglist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels9.x86_64.pkglist postinstall=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels9.x86_64.postinstall profile=compute provmethod=netboot rootimgdir=/install/netboot/alma9/x86_64/compute synclists=/install/custom/netboot/alma/compute.alma9.synclist Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Markus Hilger HPC Engineer MEGWARE Computer Vertrieb und Service GmbH Tel: +49 3722 528-47 Nordstraße 19 markus.hil...@megware.com<mailto:markus.hil...@megware.com> 09247 Chemnitz-Röhrsdorf, Germany www.megware.com<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.megware.com/__;!!KOmnBZxC8_2BBQ!25BwoiPLOKWtPbLRQiEnPEYPnknXT57_gsd0f6_UtdrYX6kscFJJjsQs0FfYrHyebEaW7NZmvln8vME0kSu4$> Geschäftsführer: André Singer, Axel Auweter Amtsgericht: Chemnitz HRB 584 ________________________________ Von: Ryan Novosielski via xCAT-user <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2024 17:40 An: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Cc: Ryan Novosielski <novos...@rutgers.edu<mailto:novos...@rutgers.edu>> Betreff: Re: [xcat-user] RHEL9 support in xcat I don’t know what-all happened at SC or whether a group has come together to continue it, but just remember that there’s a thread on this mailing list about the fact that xCAT is not going to be maintained going forward. -- #BlackLivesMatter ____ || \\UTGERS<file://UTGERS>, |---------------------------*O*--------------------------- ||_// the State | Ryan Novosielski - novos...@rutgers.edu<mailto:novos...@rutgers.edu> || \\ University | Sr. Technologist - 973/972.0922 (2x0922) ~*~ RBHS Campus || \\ of NJ | Office of Advanced Research Computing - MSB A555B, Newark `' On Jan 10, 2024, at 11:54, Imam Toufique <techie...@gmail.com<mailto:techie...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello, Are there any plans to add RHEL9 support for xcat? If so, will it be available for community use? 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