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

[Liang Guo]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:24 PM, David Gibson
<address@hidden> wrote:
>>   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.
>
I want find which pieces are missing, if it not too much, I can do my
best to add the feature.

SLOF, the opensource firmware used by qemu, can boot AIX in a
js20/js21, so I think qemu is near to boot AIX now.

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