Proxmox for PowerPC

[matt.]

Is a Proxmox release planned for the PowerPC platform? We already migrated almost all of our servers from x86 to ppc and while we might not represent the whole hosting industry this would be of importance for us.

 

[oguz]

hi,

afaik, there's no significant work being done in that direction atm.

 

[matt.]

Is this also valid for computing nodes? And if so, would it be hard to port the required software for computing nodes to ppc?

 

[tom]

Is this also valid for computing nodes? And if so, would it be hard to port the required software for computing nodes to ppc?

yes, there is not much work done in this direction.

 

[Trex]

hi,

afaik, there's no significant work being done in that direction atm.

I have a number of clients wanting to migrate away from x64 to OpenPower9 who would dearly love to continue using ProxMox.

As Debian 10 apparently runs on PowerPC and ProxMox 6.0 is based upon Debian 10 as well, how challenging would it be to offer ProxMox 6 on another Debian-supported architecture?

Would ProxMox be interested in offering (or soliciting) a bounty to bring ProxMox 6 to OpenPower?

 

[noahbliss]

Also interested in this.

 

[Knogle]

Any news on that?

 

[LnxBil]

Arm got a lot of traction and there is work being done on integrating it. Personally, I just saw ppc in projects, that migrated everything to x86-64, because it is much, much cheaper in operation.

 

[Knogle]

Arm got a lot of traction and there is work being done on integrating it. Personally, I just saw ppc in projects, that migrated everything to x86-64, because it is much, much cheaper in operation.

Yeah makes sense, Arm is really superior in the long run, but thanks for your reply!