From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54273 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2cMu-0000zw-GH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:41:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2cMt-0003Qi-5D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:41:56 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:60705) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2cMs-0003Q0-S5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:41:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:41:47 +1100 From: David Gibson Message-ID: <20110324044147.GN22782@yookeroo> References: <1300858247-8197-1-git-send-email-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> <1300914489.2402.387.camel@pasglop> <9EEB8EA2-3EA4-4B1C-93C2-E1943F498E57@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9EEB8EA2-3EA4-4B1C-93C2-E1943F498E57@suse.de> Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [0/27] Implement emulation of pSeries logical partitions (v4) List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: paulus@samba.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:29:04PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 23.03.2011, at 22:08, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 15:45 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > >> > >> What's the magic to start a guest? I tried passing a disk which SLOF > >> didn't detect (obviously - there's no IDE there). I also tried running > >> a kernel directly with -kernel which gave me no output. How are you > >> usually running your images? > > > > hrm... you using -M pseries right ? > > Yup > > > so -kernel should work with a kernel that is compiled for the pseries > > platform (and it won't use SLOF). > > Yeah, that part works. > > > > > a disk should work with SLOF if you use the default which is scsi (ie > > pseries machine sets that flag that tells qemu to default to scsi, which > > is then picked up by our vscsi). > > > > IE. You should be able to stick a distro ISO in the virtual CD-ROM and > > boot from that with SLOF. SLOF will read the qemu boot list (tho it only > > knows about "c", "d" and "n" at that stage) and try them in order. > > That one doesn't. If I just pass in a disk w/o specifically saying > it's a scsi disk I end up with no hard disk in the guest :). Um.. what exact command line are you using? For me, both -hda and a bare on the command line work... -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson