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

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:52:50PM +0800, Liang Guo wrote:
> 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.

I don't know, I'm afraid.  I know almost nothing about AIX, so I don't
know which bits of PAPR it needs to boot.

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

That's not really comparable.  I think that would be SLOF running
within a partition, but with the PowerVM hypervisor, which is what
provides most of PAPR.

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