[Question]: Is it possible to test multiarch (non x86_64) architecture easily?

[sarroutbi]

I am wondering which possibility is available to test non x86_64 architecture:

• Is it possible to simulate S390x / PPC64le architectures easily?
• Can this be tested somehow through virt-manager, minikube or related?

I would like to test multiarch build generated by Konflux

@prb112 : May I CC you to provide some feedback regarding this?

[prb112]

Hey Sergio

Thanks for reaching about Power/Z.

I'm going to try to answer:

Is it possible to simulate S390x / PPC64le architectures easily?
Yes. You can simulate it via using multiarch/qemu-user-static

However, it's a translation from s390x/ppc64le to the native instruction set. It can be very slow, and is on a container-by-container basis.

Can this be tested somehow through virt-manager, minikube or related?
Yes, this could be tested through ppc64le-cloud/kind-image

$ kind create cluster --image quay.io/powercloud/kind-node:v1.30.2

However, once you have the image, you'll still want to be on Power hardware.

We have a team with access to testing hardware / software and would be happy to work with you on testing.

Thanks,

Paul