Feature request: Oracle Cloud arm64

[Ryan Finnie]

Oracle Cloud recently announced Ampere arm64 compute. Currently the only available image directly on the platform is Oracle Linux 8. However, I've tested importing the focal 20210518 arm64 qcow2 img and it works fine, with the following overrides to OCI's standard import process:

- Shape: VM.Standard.A1.Flex
- Firmware: UEFI_64 (no BIOS)

[Joshua Powers (powersj)]

Canonical announced and released images last week [1]. If I select the VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape, I then have an option for "Canonical Ubuntu" and "20.04" under Platform images. Note that minimal images are not yet present for arm64.

Let us know if you are unable to select those options. Moving this to incomplete for now.

[1] https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-supports-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-ampere-a1-compute

[Ryan Finnie (fo0bar)]

On 6/3/21 1:08 PM, Joshua Powers wrote:
> Canonical announced and released images last week [1]. If I select the
> VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape, I then have an option for "Canonical Ubuntu"
> and "20.04" under Platform images. Note that minimal images are not yet
> present for arm64.
>
> Let us know if you are unable to select those options. Moving this to
> incomplete for now.
>
> [1] https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-supports-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-
> ampere-a1-compute

Ah yes, if I select "Canonical Ubuntu", it pre-selects "20.04 minimal"
and then errors out with "This image has no compatible image builds for
the current shape." Every distro except Oracle Linux defaults to an
incompatible image, not the best UI on OCI's part. Thanks for the info!

[Joshua Powers (powersj)]

100% agree, we are asking oracle to update the default selection so this doesn't happen.

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