Adding s390 support to oVirt
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, Peter Robinson wrote:
We don't currently have s390x EPEL
ummm -- I think Peter is suggesting EPEL executables -- this
is a solved problem
The ClefOS s390x distribution has all of RHEL 6, RHEL 7, EPEL
6, EPEL 7, and more in s390x, and has had for years. Neale
Ferguson (SNA) has 'banged the drum' on the product at trade
shows etc, and had a nice Docker demonstration under s390x
I have covered all of the s390x and z/VM mailing lists for
nearly a decade on this topic, and it gets mentions at least
monthly. Some may recall SNA principal David Boyes'
demonstration (with Debian kit) of spinning up north of 40k
instances under the older IFL model. Rich Troth (long time
CMS developer) uses ClefOS, and he was over at my office
earlier this month on trying to do some evangalism on how to
make installations easier for people coming from 'Distributed'
The initial builds were done in Hercules emulators [I started
doing this probably 8 years ago, and demonstrated at the
Louisville VMWorkShop five years ago], then completely
re-built starting mid RHEL 6 (after the IBM EOL on older Z
hardware), naively
# uname -a
Linux lclef01.lf-dev.marist.edu 3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.s390x #1
SMP Fri Oct 27 20:15:11 EDT 2017 s390x s390x s390x GNU/Linux
SNA hosts the primary mirror, but I anticipate getting a
mirror up in higher bandwidth at Marist University (near the
IBM facility at Poughkeepsie), hopefully yet this year
[herrold@centos-7 ~]$ lynx -dump \
"http://mirrors.sinenomine.net/epel?releasever=7&arch=s390x&repo=epel"
https://download.sinenomine.net/epel/epel-7
-- Russ herrold