The openmainframe offers RHEL, Ubuntu, and SUSE virual machines. Generally for a limited period but they are willing to convert to permanent VMs. There’s no real IBM engagement involved. I built our CentOS 6 and 7 clones for s390x on that system.  

 

From: Fabian Arrotin <arrfab@centos.org>
Date: Monday, September 23, 2024 at 10:26
To: devel@lists.centos.org <devel@lists.centos.org>
Subject: [CentOS-devel] access to s390x arch for SIGs (looking for comments)

It's not the first time that some SIGs members are reaching out to me to
ask about s390x architecture access for CBS (https://cbs.centos.org)

This time, it was on irc, in #centos-devel channel.

I promised to open a public thread on devel list so that we can reach
out to bigger audience (SIGs and project leaders).

Myself, talking about the Infra SIG needs, I'd love to have access to
s390x architecture, as my current plan includes building through local
mock on a different infra, and then having to launch manual processes,
as our infra packages are built / signed / distributed like every other
SIG, but so lacking s390x support.

During that discussion on the centos-devel irc channel earlier today,
someone mentioned
https://openmainframeproject.org/news/developer-resources-for-linux-on-s390x/


Do you think (as SIGs) that it would be beneficial to eventually engage
? But also searching for CentOS Board members' opinion/thought on this
first, as I don't want to start engaging with IBM through that public
process if there is another way :)

That reminds me this Fedora thread about similar request :
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issue/11122

Opinions ? Thoughts ?

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