ZOMG WHAT ARE WE BUILDING?!

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 09:28:31AM +0100, Matthias Runge wrote:
> On 11/06/2013 05:58 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >>> I know ubuntu is working on supporting ARM in openstack, I really think
> >>> we should as well. We should go big or go home. all of this change is
> >>> about making Fedora bigger and better. This is a avenue we should
> >>> pursue. while ppc is a secondary arch we need to also consider it.
> >>> there is a lot of work inside of IBM on KVM and openstack.
> >>
> >> AFAIK, the work was limited to supporting libvirt LXC on ARM
> >> with OpenStack. No one in their right mind should use that since
> >> it offers no meaningful security, since there was no work done
> >> to make OpenStack request use of SELinux or AppArmour for LXC.
> > 
> > Linaro is actively working on libvirt ARM for Openstack it but from
> > some of their status reports the progress is slow.
> > 
> >> I've not seen any patches (upstream at least) to support KVM on
> >> ARM in OpenStack from any Ubuntu devs, or indeed from anyone at
> >> all.
> > 
> > Well Linaro is working on it, I get the feeling they're not at the
> > upstreaming point.
> Yupp, that's what I found out. There is a trystack.org instance running
> OpenStack on ARM, based on the work from Linaro.

I believe that is only running LXC, not KVM - at least it was last time
I looked at it. There have been zero patches submitted for KVM ARM with
OpenStack.

Daniel
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