Re: [Qemu-ppc] Help getting started

[Alexander Graf]

On 28.05.14 23:03, Nathan Beasley wrote:
> I am trying to get QEMU running using the mpc8544ds machine type and I 
> am completely new to QEMU.
> I've been trying for the last couple days and looking through old 
> mailing lists and forums and just not making any progress.
> I was able to downloaded/build Qemu 2.0 without issues.
> I was able to get the powerpc running off of Aurelien's debian images 
> without an issues.
> (qemu-system-ppc -hda debian_squeeze_powerpc_standard.qcow2 -nographic)
> I've spent the last day trying to get this or the Freescale BSP images 
> running using these and some other variations. When I do these I get 
> no output.
> (qemu-system-ppc -M mpc8544ds -hda 
> debian_squeeze_powerpc_standard.qcow2 -nographic)
> (qemu-system-ppc -M mpc8544ds -kernel uImage -nographic)
> I have tried running them with -

with -?

In QEMU 2.0 for the -M mpc8544ds target, you always need to specify 
-kernel, otherwise the VM doesn't have any initial code to execute.

> My goal here is to just get started and have an image up and running 
> so when I start trying to build an image from source I know I have a 
> working environment.
> Any suggestions on where to go from here to get a basic image running 
> or source for a sample image to get off the ground?

The disk image is fine, you just need a working kernel. Feel free to 
grab one of my known good ones at

  http://csgraf.de/tmp/ppc/uImage.e500mc
  http://csgraf.de/tmp/ppc/uImage.e500v2

The default CPU type for mpc8544ds is e500v2, so you'll want that kernel 
here.


Alex