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Punith Kenchappa edited this page Mar 20, 2024 · 3 revisions

Kubevirt support for PPC64LE.

Pre-req installation

We required these pre-req installation for the bring up the k8s cluster with single node.

Create the binaries and images for the kubevirt controller pods.

Follow the links to bring up the binaries and images : Bring up the binaries and images

Follow the steps in the below link to get the kubeadm cluster:

DOC: https://github.com/ppc64le-cloud/test-infra/wiki/Creating-Kubernetes-cluster-with- kubeadm-on-Power-(RHEL-or-CentOS)

kubelet swap off

sudo dnf remove zram-generator-defaults

remove taints

* kubectl taint node ltcrain34-lp3.aus.stglabs.ibm.com node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane:NoSchedule-

* kubectl taint node ltcrain34-lp3.aus.stglabs.ibm.com node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoSchedule-

taints to be removed.

node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane:NoSchedule

node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoSchedule

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/projectcalico/calico/v3.26.4/manifests/calico.yaml

Bring up the kubevirt operator

  • Modify the image repo and using the command below
    • kubectl apply -f kubevirt-operator.yaml
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Create kubevirt custom resource

  • Once the Kubevirt operator up and running.

  • Modify kubevirt-cr.yaml as shown below.

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Apply above changes and run the command.

  • Kubectl apply –f kubevirt-cr.yaml
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Deploy the VM using kubectl

  • Modify the examples/vm_fedora_ppc64le.yaml according to your requirement.
  • Provide the disk image location and disk and ram size.
  • Run the command kubectl apply –f examples/vm_fedora_ppc64le.yaml
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Login to deployed VM using virtctl console

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Create a secret for the VM using SSH-Keygen

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Add secret in the VM’s yaml file

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SSH to VM adding the config

  • ssh -0 'ProxyCommand=virtctl port-forward --stdio=true vmi/testvmfedora.default 22'fedora@testvmfedora.default
  • one-time job to add the ssh config, then we can ssh via ip address.
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SSH to VM via IP address

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Delete the VM using the kubectl command

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Guest VM running in KVM accel

  • systemd-detect-virt
  • kvm
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References

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