Support Linux ppc64le

[hrzafer]

When I try to connect our IBM Power 9 remote server (RedHat), I get Can't connect to xxx: unreachable or not Linux x86_64 (Linux ppc64le) error. Since the extension purely depends on ssh and the ppc64le is still Linux, this shouldn't be much of a problem.

Thanks

[roblourens]

We would have to build our native dependencies for Linux which we probably won't do, but I'll leave this open as a feature request.

[hrzafer]

Hi! Does that mean, this extension sends some binaries over ssh to the remote server? Is there a document on how this works? I wonder if we can compile necessary parts on our own.

[roblourens]

The extension downloads and installs a server on the remote machine: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview

The server components are not open source.

[ThePrez]

The extension downloads and installs a server on the remote machine: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview

The server components are not open source.

I apologize, as this may be the wrong place to ask, but.... Are there any plans to open source those server components?

[brando90]

Is there any way to help to make this feature supported? @roblourens

[brando90]

Just out of curiosity, what architectures are supported?

[roblourens]

That is described in the readme https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh

[nicholaiTukanov]

I agree with @brando90. I would love to have this feature.

[raph38130]

+1 power9 support

[rkube]

power9 support would very helpful. Many HPC clusters are power9 based, it would be great to use vscode to edit files on these systems.

[brando90]

Since it seems that this is not a priority feature (but extremely useful to many of us) I thought that perhaps something like push to the server on save would be good enough (the way atom, pycharm does it). Anyone know of a feature like that?

Same question on SO, hopefully, it will be helpful to people someday: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60875795/is-there-a-remote-sync-on-save-for-vs-code-that-works-for-any-sever-architecture

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/93525

[AndrewGaspar]

@brando90 Have you tried sshfs?

[carlosedp]

+1

[rpsene]

This should be architecture agnostic, given the necessary freedom so developers can use VSCode on amd64, arm, ppc64le and s390x.

[Proteusiq]

We would have to build our native dependencies for Linux which we probably won't do, but I'll leave this open as a feature request.

Do we have any status report on whether VS Code will support Power X anytime soon?

[rpsene]

@roblourens I can give free access to Power to be attached to any CI infrastructure. Does it help?

[BaptisteRoseau]

I would also like to have Remote - SSH work on Power architecture. For those of you who would like and SFTP extension while waiting for an update of this one, you could use liximomo's SFTP extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=liximomo.sftp

You don't need to write any password in config files actually, you can type it on the connection.

[balos1]

+1

[hibagus]

I would love to have ppc64le Power-9 support for VScode remote.

[PaulYuuu]

+1

[danielhb]

For this feature to get more traction I suggest renaming this issue/feature request to "Support Linux amd64/arm/ppc64le/s390x" or similar. Like @rpsene mentioned above, this is not a ppc64le exclusive feature. ARM folks are glancing at this title and thinking this has nothing to do with them.

[xapundel]

+1

[AndrewGaspar]

For this feature to get more traction I suggest renaming this issue/feature request to "Support Linux amd64/arm/ppc64le/s390x" or similar. Like @rpsene mentioned above, this is not a ppc64le exclusive feature. ARM folks are glancing at this title and thinking this has nothing to do with them.

ARM and amd64 are already supported.

[xapundel]

I can help with porting to ppc64le. I have VM for build/test. I also have exp in migration process. Will it help if I provide access to ppc64le for dev team.

[roccqqck]

@xapundel if it is possible to install nodejs at ppc64, There might be another solution. https://github.com/cdr/code-server This project is a web vscode. It supports almost every extensions of vscode.

You could use npm to build code-server easily. https://github.com/cdr/code-server/blob/master/doc/install.md#yarn-npm

[Mon-ius]

+1

[wacoder]

+1

[hibagus]

@xapundel if it is possible to install nodejs at ppc64, There might be another solution. https://github.com/cdr/code-server This project is a web vscode. It supports almost every extensions of vscode.

You could use npm to build code-server easily. https://github.com/cdr/code-server/blob/master/doc/install.md#yarn-npm

This is a great solution! I am using this solution while waiting for the official support for ppc64le.

[csaska]

Is https://github.com/microsoft/vsda the only VS Code Remote extension Microsoft dependency that is not open sourced?

Is it possible to provide a version of this repository that can be open sourced so that we can fork the project and provide ppc support?

[e-desouza]

I work around this by using sshfs today (on s390x architecture).