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Re: architectures



Hello,

On Sun 17 Nov 2024 at 12:25pm GMT, Simon McVittie wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 at 11:53:17 +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> Are all the test runners the architectures they purport to be, or are
>> some of them emulating them?
>>
>> In particular, is ci-worker-ppc64el-05 bare metal ppc64el?
>
> I am not involved in running the CI infrastructure, so this is second-hand
> information, but I believe they all run on some sort of virtual machine,
> using KVM or similar - so they're "real" ppc64el in the sense that they
> aren't an amd64 emulating a ppc64el or anything like that, but they aren't
> "bare metal" in the sense that the lxc containers are run directly on
> a physical machine.

Thanks.  I'm hoping I can get a firsthand answer for this.  I don't want
to bother upstream about it if it's possibly a Debian-generated issue.

> `systemd-detect-virt --vm` might be able to tell you more.

Nice.  I'll resort to uploading that if no-one who knows has time to
reply.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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