THX for that! Indeed works 😊 (grace-hopper node, rhel9.3)
*Gilad Berman *
HPC Architect, Lenovo EMEA
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*From:* Markus Hilger <markus.hil...@megware.com>
*Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2024 6:43 PM
*To:* Gilad Berman <gber...@lenovo.com>; xCAT Users Mailing list
<xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
*Cc:* Matthew Alton <mal...@ocf.co.uk>
*Subject:* AW: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat
Hi,
with https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/7257 arm deployment is
pretty much working for stateless and stateful deployment via grub2.
On a x86 management node you can even cross-build arm stateless images.
Only discovery doesn't work for arm.
Feel free to test these changes.
I would like to merge these changes as alpha state arm support. I
think stateless and stateful deployment covers 90% of use cases already 😉
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>
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*Gesendet:* Freitag, 23. Februar 2024 12:23
*An:* Gilad Berman <gber...@lenovo.com>; xCAT Users Mailing list
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*Cc:* Matthew Alton <mal...@ocf.co.uk>
*Betreff:* Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat
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.
Regards,
Matt.
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*Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2024 10:56 AM
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*Subject:* RE: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat
Any chance arm support is also being looked at?
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*Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2024 11:31 AM
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*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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I haven’t heard or seen any updates. Perhaps there is one in the horizon.
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 7:02 AM Noah, Stuart via xCAT-user
<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>
*Sent:* Thursday, January 11, 2024 10:46 AM
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*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
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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.
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 10:37 AM Markus Hilger
<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
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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
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*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.
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On Jan 10, 2024, at 11:54, Imam Toufique
<techie...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
Are there any plans to add RHEL9 support for xcat? If so,
will it be available for community use?
Thanks
Regards,
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