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

Laurent Vivier
2017-03-15T11:25:55Z

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Le 15/03/2017 à 11:29, Greg Kurz a écrit :
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:56:36 +0100
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> On 14 March 2017 at 09:59, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>> On 14 March 2017 at 09:13, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> 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/

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

Laurent

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