Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14

[Greg Kurz]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:25:38 +0100
Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:

> Le 15/03/2017 à 11:29, Greg Kurz a écrit :
> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:56:36 +0100
> > Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> >   
> >> On 14 March 2017 at 09:59, Juan Quintela <address@hidden> wrote:  
> >>> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:    
> >>>> On 14 March 2017 at 09:13, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:    
> >>>>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:02:01AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >>>>> The minimum requirements for the new language:
> >>>>> 1. Does it support the host operating systems that QEMU runs on?
> >>>>> 2. Does it support the host architectures that QEMU runs on?    
> >>>>
> >>>> Speaking of this, I was thinking that we should introduce
> >>>> a rule that for any host OS/arch we support we must have
> >>>> a build machine so we can at least do a compile test.
> >>>> For instance if you believe configure we support Solaris
> >>>> and AIX, but I bet they're bit-rotting. The ia64 backend
> >>>> has to be a strong candidate for being dumped too.
> >>>> Demanding "system we can test on or we drop support"
> >>>> would let us more clearly see what we're actually running
> >>>> on and avoid unnecessarily ruling things out because they
> >>>> don't support Itanium or AIX...    
> >>>
> >>> YES, YES and YES.
> >>>
> >>> I demand an osX build machine NOW!!!!  Remote access is ok.    
> >>
> >> OSX is actually in the set that's OK because I have a
> >> machine I can test on. The ones that are problems are
> >> all the BSDs, AIX, Solaris, Haiku, and architectures  
> > 
> > The most relevant links I could find about AIX hosts only mention 
> > QEMU 0.9.1:
> > 
> > http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Qemu
> > http://www.vivier.eu/Qemu/
> > 
> > I'm not aware of any effort within IBM to support newer versions
> > of QEMU on an AIX host (Cc'ing Laurent in case he would be aware
> > of a non-IBM initiative).
> >  
> 
> At this time it was a personal initiative, made possible because I have
> worked at Bull on the port of GNOME to AIX and had access to some Bull
> AIX Servers.
> 
> Now this effort has been moved to the AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications:
> 
> http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/
> 

Heh :)

> Perhaps you can try to contact someone inside IBM about this toolbox?
> 

Not even sure if it's worth the pain as I could not find any trace of QEMU
in the download pages:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/alpha.html
https://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/

Cheers.

--
Greg

> Laurent
> 
>

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