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WorksOnArm / equinix-metal-arm64-cluster

Arm and Equinix Metal have partnered to make powerful Neoverse based Armv8 bare metal infrastructure including latest generation Ampere systems — available for open source software developers to build, test and optimize for Arm64 architecture.
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Request for an AArch64 bare-metal instance for the Cloud Hypervisor project #205

Closed MrXinWang closed 4 years ago

MrXinWang commented 4 years ago

Kind attention: @kalyxin02 @michael2012z @rbradford

Name, email, company, job title

Michael Zhao, Michael.Zhao@arm.com, Arm, Staff software engineer Henry Wang, Henry.Wang@arm.com, Arm, Graduate software engineer

Project Title and description

Cloud-Hypervisor

Cloud-Hypervisor is an open source Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) that runs on top of KVM. The project focuses on exclusively running modern, cloud workloads, on top of a limited set of hardware architectures and platforms. Cloud Hypervisor is implemented in Rust and is based on the rust-vmm crates.

The cloud-hypervisor community is accepting PRs to enable AArch64. Currently we are using a github action to cross-build AArch64 code on x86_64 machine in order to make sure these AArch64 PRs can be built. As these PRs are gradually being merged, it is necessary to set up AArch64 CI in order to test everything on real AArch64 platform.

Which members of the community would benefit from your work?

Currently there are a number of contributions for this project, and together there is a need to have the fundamental integration test and unit test publicly now and furthermore the CI infrastructure in the future. This will encourage the contribution on multi-arch support, and thus appeal more cloud-hypervisor developers to utilize this project.

Is the code that you’re going to run 100% open source? If so, what is the URL or URLs where it is located?

Yes, https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor

What infrastructure (computing resources and network access) do you need? (see: https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/)?

Require access to AArch64 based servers. Still in planning phase of how many, but starting off one should be sufficient.

Please state your contributions to the open source community and any other relevant initiatives

We are delivering patches to enable cloud-hypervisor on AArch64. See cloud-hypervisor #1168, #1223 #1232, #1238, #1293. Support to this project will be long-term.

Please let me know if you need more information.

Thanks!!

vielmetti commented 4 years ago

This has been approved, I'll update when the system has been allocated.

MrXinWang commented 4 years ago

@vielmetti Thanks so much!

vielmetti commented 4 years ago

Invitations have been sent and a machine has been reserved to the account, you should be all set.

vielmetti commented 4 years ago

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Cloud-Hypervisor-0.8-Released - news about Cloud Hypervisor 0.8 release with aarch64 support.

MrXinWang commented 4 years ago

Hi @vielmetti ! Thanks so much for providing the machine! We can access it perfectly now and the setup of CI is comming in a few days. I am wondering if you can add the cloud-hypervisor community maintainer @rbradford to the cloud-hypervisor organization in packet.net (just like what you did for me and Michael). His email can be found in https://github.com/rbradford. Thanks!

vielmetti commented 4 years ago

Thanks @MrXinWang - I've added @rbradford to the project.