[Qemu-devel] Current PPC system emulation status?

[Qemu-devel] Current PPC system emulation status?

[Brad Campbell]

G'day all,

I'm making my very first baby steps trying to use qemu to emulate a PPC system so I can run 
debian-ppc, but I'm really not getting very far. Is anyone currently using PPC system emulation?

qemu-system-ppc -hda debian-ppc.img -cdrom debian-LennyBeta2-powerpc-netinst.iso -m 384 -boot -d

.. Also tried -M prep

I get in the console (hand typed)

ide0: drive 0: Hard Disk
ERROR: OF_property_copy cannot get property 'hd' for aliases
ERROR: WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX : status 50 != 0x40
ide0: drive 1: CD-ROM
ERROR: OF_property_copy cannot get property 'cd' for aliases
ERROR: WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX : status 50 != 0x40
ide1: drive 0: none
ide1: drive 1: none
ERROR: Found no boot partition!

This is with svn of about 10 minutes ago.
Am I doing something obviously dumb? Google results seem to indicate that this would / should / 
used-to work.

Regards,
Brad
-- 
Dolphins are so intelligent that within a few weeks they can
train Americans to stand at the edge of the pool and throw them
fish.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Current PPC system emulation status?

[Miklos Vajna]

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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:23:19AM +0400, Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au> wrote:
> I'm making my very first baby steps trying to use qemu to emulate a PPC 
> system so I can run debian-ppc, but I'm really not getting very far. Is 
> anyone currently using PPC system emulation?

Yes.

> .. Also tried -M prep

You are right, it will not work without a prep kernel, nor with a
vanilla one.

See the images what Firmware Linux provides (or build a kernel using
those patches), then it should work fine for you as well.

And you need at least -M prep -nographic and you need to boot the kernel
directly.

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Current PPC system emulation status?

[C.W. Betts]

The current PowerPC firmware has issues.  If somebody wants to work on  
it and make it better, than by all means go for it.  As for past  
efforts: QEMU has changed a lot since those attempts.  Somebody needs  
to maintain the PowerPC code so that it works.
On Sep 22, 2008, at 1:23 AM, Brad Campbell wrote:

> G'day all,
>
> I'm making my very first baby steps trying to use qemu to emulate a  
> PPC system so I can run debian-ppc, but I'm really not getting very  
> far. Is anyone currently using PPC system emulation?
>
> qemu-system-ppc -hda debian-ppc.img -cdrom debian-LennyBeta2-powerpc- 
> netinst.iso -m 384 -boot -d
>
> .. Also tried -M prep
>
> I get in the console (hand typed)
>
> ide0: drive 0: Hard Disk
> ERROR: OF_property_copy cannot get property 'hd' for aliases
> ERROR: WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX : status 50 != 0x40
> ide0: drive 1: CD-ROM
> ERROR: OF_property_copy cannot get property 'cd' for aliases
> ERROR: WIN_READ_NATIVE_MAX : status 50 != 0x40
> ide1: drive 0: none
> ide1: drive 1: none
> ERROR: Found no boot partition!
>
> This is with svn of about 10 minutes ago.
> Am I doing something obviously dumb? Google results seem to indicate  
> that this would / should / used-to work.
>
> Regards,
> Brad
> -- 
> Dolphins are so intelligent that within a few weeks they can
> train Americans to stand at the edge of the pool and throw them
> fish.
>
>