Support Linux ppc64le

[hrzafer]

When I try to connect our IBM Power 9 remote server (RedHat), I get Can't connect to xxx: unreachable or not Linux x86_64 (Linux ppc64le) error. Since the extension purely depends on ssh and the ppc64le is still Linux, this shouldn't be much of a problem.

Thanks

[roblourens]

We would have to build our native dependencies for Linux which we probably won't do, but I'll leave this open as a feature request.

[hrzafer]

Hi! Does that mean, this extension sends some binaries over ssh to the remote server? Is there a document on how this works? I wonder if we can compile necessary parts on our own.

[roblourens]

The extension downloads and installs a server on the remote machine: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview

The server components are not open source.

[ThePrez]

The extension downloads and installs a server on the remote machine: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview

The server components are not open source.

I apologize, as this may be the wrong place to ask, but.... Are there any plans to open source those server components?

[brando90]

Is there any way to help to make this feature supported? @roblourens

[brando90]

Just out of curiosity, what architectures are supported?

[roblourens]

That is described in the readme https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh

[nicholaiTukanov]

I agree with @brando90. I would love to have this feature.

[raph38130]

+1 power9 support

[rkube]

power9 support would very helpful. Many HPC clusters are power9 based, it would be great to use vscode to edit files on these systems.

[brando90]

Since it seems that this is not a priority feature (but extremely useful to many of us) I thought that perhaps something like push to the server on save would be good enough (the way atom, pycharm does it). Anyone know of a feature like that?

Same question on SO, hopefully, it will be helpful to people someday: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60875795/is-there-a-remote-sync-on-save-for-vs-code-that-works-for-any-sever-architecture

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/93525

[AndrewGaspar]

@brando90 Have you tried sshfs?

[carlosedp]

+1

[rpsene]

This should be architecture agnostic, given the necessary freedom so developers can use VSCode on amd64, arm, ppc64le and s390x.

[Proteusiq]

We would have to build our native dependencies for Linux which we probably won't do, but I'll leave this open as a feature request.

Do we have any status report on whether VS Code will support Power X anytime soon?

[rpsene]

@roblourens I can give free access to Power to be attached to any CI infrastructure. Does it help?

[BaptisteRoseau]

I would also like to have Remote - SSH work on Power architecture. For those of you who would like and SFTP extension while waiting for an update of this one, you could use liximomo's SFTP extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=liximomo.sftp

You don't need to write any password in config files actually, you can type it on the connection.

[balos1]

+1

[hibagus]

I would love to have ppc64le Power-9 support for VScode remote.

[PaulYuuu]

+1

[danielhb]

For this feature to get more traction I suggest renaming this issue/feature request to "Support Linux amd64/arm/ppc64le/s390x" or similar. Like @rpsene mentioned above, this is not a ppc64le exclusive feature. ARM folks are glancing at this title and thinking this has nothing to do with them.

[xapundel]

+1

[AndrewGaspar]

For this feature to get more traction I suggest renaming this issue/feature request to "Support Linux amd64/arm/ppc64le/s390x" or similar. Like @rpsene mentioned above, this is not a ppc64le exclusive feature. ARM folks are glancing at this title and thinking this has nothing to do with them.

ARM and amd64 are already supported.

[xapundel]

I can help with porting to ppc64le. I have VM for build/test. I also have exp in migration process. Will it help if I provide access to ppc64le for dev team.

[roccqqck]

@xapundel if it is possible to install nodejs at ppc64, There might be another solution. https://github.com/cdr/code-server This project is a web vscode. It supports almost every extensions of vscode.

You could use npm to build code-server easily. https://github.com/cdr/code-server/blob/master/doc/install.md#yarn-npm

[Mon-ius]

+1

[wacoder]

+1

[hibagus]

@xapundel if it is possible to install nodejs at ppc64, There might be another solution. https://github.com/cdr/code-server This project is a web vscode. It supports almost every extensions of vscode.

You could use npm to build code-server easily. https://github.com/cdr/code-server/blob/master/doc/install.md#yarn-npm

This is a great solution! I am using this solution while waiting for the official support for ppc64le.

[csaska]

Is https://github.com/microsoft/vsda the only VS Code Remote extension Microsoft dependency that is not open sourced?

Is it possible to provide a version of this repository that can be open sourced so that we can fork the project and provide ppc support?

[e-desouza]

I work around this by using sshfs today (on s390x architecture).

[magic-lantern]

This is a feature I'd also like to have. Is there a process for moving this from being an old issue to being actively worked on?

[rpsene]

@roblourens hey, how can we collaborate to make it happen?

[csaska]

I'm not sure there's anything that can be done here folks.

You can get by the os check and force the remote installation but you will run into the issue of VSDA (whatever that is) not being an open source project and not having ppc support.

Unfortunately for us this isn't an entirely open source project and the piece that isn't doesn't work on ppc.

Edit:

Let me take this opportunity to plug code-server. It works pretty well on ppc. I think our effort is better spent helping that project create a ppc rpm.

[rpsene]

@csaska can you share a link for that project?

[csaska]

Here is the project code-server. The pain point for getting a ppc RPM for code-server is that currently there is no way to build VS Code from source on ppc because it tries to build electron.

[TheRepo91]

Still nothing for Power?

[wderekjones]

power??

[mdepasca]

Power 9 support would be very useful

[adil-s]

please add the support power PC. just being hopeful as others.

[Mon-ius]

Hi, Can you open the source of the remote extension. I can help to develop and fix the issues in IBM POWER 9 machines.

[0rtz]

Please support ppc64 :pray:

[bcaddy]

+1 POWER9 is common on HPC systems, including the fastest supercomputer in the US and several premier XSEDE systems. Adding POWER9 support would help thousands of scientists

[kocchop]

+1 power9

[riteshahlawat]

+1 Lots of compute canada nodes (for academic research) are ppc64le and I really don't wanna use a different IDE

[amizeranschi]

@bcaddy @riteshahlawat can you think of any other IDE that could work remotely on a power9 machine?

[csaska]

code-server works on ppc and is a good alternative. I used to use it when I developed on P9s

[amizeranschi]

Does code-server work via SSH as well? I want to run things on a cluster and I can only reach it through SSH.

[csaska]

Yep you can setup port forwarding

There is one caveat. While code-server does gives you a "very close to vs code experience", you may find that some extensions don't work or can't be installed.

In this event, you may need to build whatever extension you want to install yourself by downloading the source code and then use the code server install command to install the extension.

This can be annoying but overall my experience with code server was a positive one.

[e-desouza]

I use OpenShift with CodeReady Workspaces (Eclipse Che based) or sshfs depending on what I'm doing.. CRW works on Power and Z platforms too.

[satwaghole]

much needed the VSCode for ppc64le. Working on various UPI and IPI based cluster, various script, automation .This thing become must now. Please update whether there will be availability of this ?