Re: [Qemu-devel] [TestDays] s390x emulation error

["Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>]

Am 10.11.2011 00:21, schrieb Alexander Graf:
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> Am 10.11.2011 um 00:20 schrieb Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>:
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>> Am 10.11.2011 00:18, schrieb Alexander Graf:
>>> Am 09.11.2011 um 23:53 schrieb Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>:
>>>> I get the following error:
>>>>
>>>> $ s390x-softmmu/qemu-system-s390x
>>>> qemu-system-s390x: Guest moved used index from 0 to 47802
>>>>
>>>> Same if specifying SLES 11 SP2 Beta8 DVD .iso via -cdrom.
>>>>
>>>> First time trying it, am I missing anything?
>>>> The error message is not really telling either way and should be fixed.
>>>
>>> S390 doesn't have a standardized way of booting off CDs, so you have to manually run the image from the CD by passing it to -kernel. It's done the same way on real hardware :(.
>>
>> Fine with me. Just please have the emulator say so! :)
> 
> Hm. That is zipl business really. It should print a warning when it can't find a boot record I suppose :).

Or the machine, knowing what QEMU-specific firmware it uses, could error
if it doesn't get -kernel arguments. :) Me, I don't know zipl.

Andreas

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