Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat

[Russell J. <rus...@jo...>]

Glad to know that worked! We have some GH nodes coming in as well. If we 
can stick to xcat we definitely want to do that.

Hope to see these changes merged and "officially" supported soon.



On 2/24/24 1:28 AM, Gilad Berman wrote:
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> THX for that! Indeed works 😊 (grace-hopper node, rhel9.3)
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> *From:* Markus Hilger <mar...@me...>
> *Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2024 6:43 PM
> *To:* Gilad Berman <gb...@le...>; xCAT Users Mailing list 
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> *Cc:* Matthew Alton <ma...@oc...>
> *Subject:* AW: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat
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> Hi,
>
> with https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/7257 arm deployment is 
> pretty much working for stateless and stateful deployment via grub2.
>
> On a x86 management node you can even cross-build arm stateless images.
>
> Only discovery doesn't work for arm.
>
> Feel free to test these changes.
>
> I would like to merge these changes as alpha state arm support. I 
> think stateless and stateful deployment covers 90% of use cases already 😉
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> ​Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards
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> *Von:*Matthew Alton via xCAT-user <xca...@li...>
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 23. Februar 2024 12:23
> *An:* Gilad Berman <gb...@le...>; xCAT Users Mailing list 
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> *Betreff:* Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat
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> Hi Gilad,
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> There are no immediate plans for arm. Our focus will be primarily on 
> x86 whilst we are in a transitional state and clearing some of the 
> backlogged issues. After we have fully established the maintenance of 
> project, we will be determining what a longer-term roadmap looks like 
> and how we plan to further develop xCAT.
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> Regards,
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> *From:* Gilad Berman <gb...@le...>
> *Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2024 10:56 AM
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> Any chance arm support is also being looked at?
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> *From:* Matthew Alton via xCAT-user <xca...@li...>
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> Good morning mailing list,
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> We, xCAT consortium, are working on various activities in the 
> background to be able to maintain xCAT fully. We have introduced a new 
> milestone of xCAT 2.17 that will be our first maintenance release. The 
> main objective of this release is to move RHEL9 and directly derived 
> operating systems (Rocky, Alma, Oracle) into officially supported by xCAT.
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> RHEL9 support is being worked on under 
> https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/7416. RHEL9 has been 
> reliably deployed from xCAT but there are a couple of known bugs with 
> workarounds we plan to fix. This week we have been merging several PRs 
> relating to RHEL9 and some other useful low hanging fruit sort of fixes.
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> A full announcement will be made when all our testing is completed and 
> we are ready to release 2.17.
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> I haven’t heard or seen any updates. Perhaps there is one in the horizon.
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> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 7:02 AM Noah, Stuart via xCAT-user 
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>     Hello Markus,
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>     Are there any new updates on EL9 support since 1/11.  I know that
>     it hasn’t been much time but I’m trying to put a migration plan
>     together to upgrade our older cluster including the OS.
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>     Thank you
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>     Sincerely,
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>     Stuart
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>     *From:* Imam Toufique <tec...@gm...>
>     *Sent:* Thursday, January 11, 2024 10:46 AM
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>     Hi all, thank you so much for your prompt responses. I wanted to
>     try out rocky9 , that's why I was wondering. Markus, thanks for
>     your valuable advice. Yeah, I wanted to get an idea about how
>     'ifcfg' would behave, you explained the
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>     Hi all,
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>     thank you so much for your prompt responses.  I wanted to try out
>     rocky9 , that's why I was wondering.
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>     Markus, thanks for your valuable advice.  Yeah, I wanted to get an
>     idea about how 'ifcfg' would behave, you explained the issue exactly.
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>     --IT
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>     On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 10:37 AM Markus Hilger
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>         Hi,
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>         yes, EL9 distros are working mostly fine.
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>         Officially EL9 is in alpha state right now. See:
>         https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/wiki/XCAT_2.16.5_Release_Notes
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>         The next release will most probably move this to the next
>         level, but it will take some more time. Please bear with us.
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>         Some special configs like nics.nicextraparms etc. do not work
>         (because ifcfg is deprecated and nicextraparams is not using
>         nmcli yet).
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>         But otherwise, management node installation and
>         stateless/stateful node deployment is working fine.
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>         Some example default osimage definitions with alma9:
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>         # <xCAT data object stanza file>
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>         alma9-x86_64-install-compute:
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>           objtype=osimage
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>           imagetype=linux
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>           osarch=x86_64
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>           osdistroname=rhels9-x86_64
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>           osname=linux
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>           osvers=rhels9
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>         otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/alma9/x86_64
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>         pkgdir=/install/repos/almalinux/9/BaseOS/x86_64/os,/install/repos/almalinux/9/AppStream/x86_64/os,/install/repos/almalinux/9/CRB/x86_64/os,/install/repos/epel/9/Everything/x86_64
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>         pkglist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels9.x86_64.pkglist
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>           profile=compute
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>           provmethod=install
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>         synclists=/install/custom/install/alma/compute.alma9.synclist
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>         template=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/rh/compute.rhels9.tmpl
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>         # <xCAT data object stanza file>
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>         alma9-x86_64-netboot-compute:
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>           objtype=osimage
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>         exlist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels9.x86_64.exlist
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>           imagetype=linux
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>           osarch=x86_64
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>           osdistroname=rhels9-x86_64
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>           osname=linux
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>           osvers=rhels9
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>         otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/alma9/x86_64
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>           permission=755
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>         pkgdir=/install/repos/almalinux/9/BaseOS/x86_64/os,/install/repos/almalinux/9/AppStream/x86_64/os,/install/repos/almalinux/9/CRB/x86_64/os,/install/repos/epel/9/Everything/x86_64
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>         pkglist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels9.x86_64.pkglist
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>         postinstall=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/compute.rhels9.x86_64.postinstall
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>           profile=compute
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>           provmethod=netboot
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>         rootimgdir=/install/netboot/alma9/x86_64/compute
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>         synclists=/install/custom/netboot/alma/compute.alma9.synclist
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>         ​Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards
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>         *Betreff:* Re: [xcat-user] RHEL9 support in xcat
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>         I don’t know what-all happened at SC or whether a group has
>         come together to continue it, but just remember that there’s a
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>             On Jan 10, 2024, at 11:54, Imam Toufique
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>             Are there any plans to add RHEL9 support for xcat?  If so,
>             will it be available for community use?
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