diskimage-builder/diskimage_builder
Zhiguo Deng 271dc36f33 Add zipl element as s390x architecture bootloader
s390x architecture uses zipl as bootloader. When used in combination
with the vm element it replaces the existing bootloader element.
It's mandatory for s390x vm images.

Use cases
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* Allow users to create s390x images that run on nova with s390x
  libvirt/kvm backend
* Building nodepool images for s390x third party CI

Supported Distros
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The following listing shows all Distros that officially support
s390x and how those Distros are supported in DIB with this patch.

* SLES - not supported (SLES is not supported in DIB)
* RHEL - not suppoprted (RHEL is not supported as KVM guest on s390x,
                         therefore there's no rhel7 qcow image for s390x available
                         like it is for other archictectures)
* Ubuntu - supported

Ubuntu images can for example be built using the following commands:

  $ disk-image-create ubuntu-minimal zipl vm
  $ disk-image-create ubuntu-minimal zipl
  $ disk-image-create ubuntu zipl vm

Testing
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Cross architecture building of s390x images is not supported so far.

The plan is to set up a ThirdParty CI that builds the image for s390x and
provides the logs.

Co-Authored-By: Andreas Scheuring <andreas.scheuring@de.ibm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Holger Smolinsky <holger@smolinski.name>
Co-Authored-By: Zhiguo Deng <bjzgdeng@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Arne Recknagel <arne.recknagel@hotmail.com>

Closes-Bug: #1730641

Change-Id: I576e7edda68da12e97c60af38f457915efe7b934
2017-11-07 17:19:27 +01:00
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block_device Remove dd from LVM element 2017-10-08 17:21:21 +00:00
elements Add zipl element as s390x architecture bootloader 2017-11-07 17:19:27 +01:00
lib Merge "Add timestamp output filter" 2017-10-09 15:56:31 +00:00
tests Move "functional" unit tests under block-device 2017-06-05 12:22:52 +10:00
__init__.py Bump hacking to 0.9.x series 2014-07-21 10:15:41 +02:00
disk_image_create.py squash-package-install to use the correct python 2017-03-13 20:24:39 +11:00
element_dependencies.py Trivial fix typos 2017-05-31 11:17:05 +07:00
logging_config.py Add timestamp output filter 2017-06-16 15:58:50 +10:00
paths.py Move diskimage-image-create to an entry point 2016-11-02 05:12:11 +00:00
version.py Create docs site containing element READMEs 2015-02-10 11:45:35 -08:00