Re: [Qemu-ppc] Booting AIX on qemu-system-ppc, kernel not started successfully

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 02:14:46PM +0800, Liang Guo wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I use the latest IBM standalone Diagnostics CD to test AIX on qemu/ppc, 
> IBM standalone diagnostics CD can be downloaded from:
> 
>   http://www-304.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/diags/download/home.html
> 
> I use the following command line to start qemu:
> 
>   qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER7 -machine pseries -m 1024 -serial stdio \
>   -cdrom /u01/vm/CDlatest.iso -monitor \
>   unix:/tmp/ppc64-aix,server,nowait -nographic

The pseries machine is not a complete PAPR implementation.  It's
enough for Linux guests, but it's probably missing pieces that AIX
requires.  I'm afraid there are no plans to implement support for AIX
guests.

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