Hello, On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 02:52:40PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > Someone asked me for a VM image recently, and I discovered we now > make some available at: https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/ There's new work in progress at: https://image-finder.debian.net/ That page includes some info on the different image types, but doesn't always have up to date data yet. > The 'genericcloud' and 'nocloud' images are amd64 only. Maybe they > don't make sense for arm64 - what are they for? generic is most flexible, genericcloud has physical hardware drivers disabled, and nocloud is as minimal as possible. The tools, configs, and docs are in this repo: https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/debian-cloud-images/ > So, I'd like to ask who's behind this fine service, and whether > anything more is needed to get arm parity with x86. Possibly there is > nothing to do except update the front page, but if there is I'm able > to spend time helping update things and I can get us some > hardware or resource to do builds on if that's what's needed, > (because Arm/linaro/Huawei/others would like to see x86_64/arm64 > parity for things like this and understand that kit/cycles need to be > supplied). Was your user able to get an image working? If not, that'd be somewhere to start. I have minimal experience with arm virtualization, so I'm not really familiar with what use-cases would be common. > I don't know if there are other services that it would make sense to > support, e.g packet provide arm64 online compute. https://www.packet.com > They already provide debian 8,9,10 options, apparently built as docker > images: https://github.com/packethost/packet-images I haven't heard that anyone on the team uses packet - but if someone wanted to extend support for their platform, I imagine we'd accept it. > A kosher debian image might be a good idea, but then maybe the generic > ones work already? I just failed to find any info on whether anything > special is needed in their images. The generic image should have a good shot at working, though it likely contains many drivers that won't be useful. Ross
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