Re: [Qemu-ppc] PowerPC, enable-kvm, and the Power processor

[Thomas Huth]

On 20.06.2018 19:58, Programmingkid wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 20, 2018, at 1:53 PM, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 20.06.2018 18:19, Programmingkid wrote:
>>> Would anyone know if qemu-system-ppc could be run on an IBM Power processor 
>>> in kvm mode? I am interested in finding any bugs with the emulated PowerPC 
>>> processors in QEMU. My theory is if QEMU runs differently in KVM mode than 
>>> pure emulation mode, we might have an emulation issue. 
>>
>> You mean the 32-bit only qemu-system-ppc? Or do you mean
>> qemu-system-ppc64, too? It definitely runs on the latter, and I think it
>> also used to work with the 32-bit only binary in former times (using
>> kvm-pr) ... but it could be that the 32-bit version is not tested very
>> well anymore, so no clue about the current shape...
>>
>> Thomas
> 
> Thanks for the info. I was referring to testing a 32-bit version of the 
> PowerPC processor like the PowerPC 750 (G3) with qemu-system-ppc.  

I just gave it a very quick try. It still seems to work:

$ ppc-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc -enable-kvm -cpu G3 -nographic

>> =============================================================
>> OpenBIOS 1.1 [Oct 19 2017 07:00]
>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2
>> CPUs: 1
>> Memory: 128M
>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>> CPU type PowerPC,750

 Thomas