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

[Programmingkid]

> On Jun 20, 2018, at 2:04 PM, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 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

Thank you for letting me know. Would you know anyone who happens to have a IBM 
Power workstation available for testing QEMU on?