ZOMG WHAT ARE WE BUILDING?!

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 04:58:43PM +0000, 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.

It would be nice to encourage them to participate in the upstream
openstack community more - at least for them to tell the openstack-dev
community what areas they're working on, so people don't duplicate
work.

Daniel
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