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

[Thomas Huth]

On 20.06.2018 22:05, Programmingkid wrote:
> 
>> 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? 

https://research.redhat.com/powerlinux-openpower-development-hosting/
https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/
http://openpower.ic.unicamp.br/minicloud/

 HTH,
  Thomas