[lxc-users] Running LXD on those new ARM64 cloud servers by Scaleway

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Simos Xenitellis <
simos.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've put together my notes about running LXD on those new ARM64 cloud
> servers by Scaleway.
>
>
Thanks for the info.


> 1. These are inexpensive cloud servers. Not baremetal, but KVM. On
> ARM64 (Cavium ThunderX) hardware.
> 2. The Linux kernel lacks ZFS support, thus requires to compile it by
> hand. Takes time and effort (-1). Have script (+1).
>


How is their kernel (and ubuntu distro) differ from upstream ubuntu?
Looking at https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/arm ,
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=zfsutils-linux , and
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=linux-generic-hwe , I thought
you can have ubuntu 16.04.2 as-is on arm with kernel 4.10
(from linux-generic-hwe-16.04-edge). Yet your blog shows kernel 4.9. Is it
scaleway-scpecifc? Does ubuntu's kernel work?



> 3. LXD complains that AppArmor is not complete, thus requires config
> option to continue. Not sure what is missing.
>

My hunch is that their kernel is custom, based on upstream, and don't have
latest apparmor kernel patches. Which is why it'd be interesting if
ubuntu's kernel can work as-is (especially since you say it's KVM, so there
should be minimal hardware complications).

-- 
Fajar
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