RE: [Qemu-devel] Booting AIX / First try w/QEMU

[Laurent Vivier <Laurent@vivier.eu>]

>Lauren,
>
>Please be cognizant of the fact that yesterday was the first time I  
>downloaded, compiled, and ever tried QEMU, so I apologize for the  
>"ID-10T" questions.
>
>BUG 1:
>
>When you say that booting AIX 6.1 impels the requisite of emulating a  
>"CHRP with at least a POWER4"", are you saying QEMU cannot do this, or  
>I need to assert different command line arguments?

Qemu emulate a CHRP but the Apple implementation, I don't know if AIX is able to manage it. I don't think Qemu emulates POWER4.
So I don't think you can run AIX6.1 with Qemu.

>What requisites would booting AIX 5.3 impel?

At least POWER3, I think.

>My goal would be to try to have access to both via an emulated  
>environment, if possible.
>
>If the OpenBIOS will not work, what BIOS would work?

None...

>
>BUG 2:
>
>How do I get the OpenBIOS updates and integrate them into recompiling  
>QEMU, or can I just somehow get a compiled update of OpenBIOS and drop  
>it in the correct QEMU directory?
>
>I am not too familiar with SVN or its command structure either.

I can send you a binary... but I think it is useless.

>
>V/R,
>
>Stuart
>
>
>Quoting "Laurent Vivier" <Laurent@vivier.eu>:
>
>>> To whom it shall concern,
>>>
>>> I have absolutely no time for mailing lists or to spend much time on
>>> this other than to report the bug, so please understand I am just here
>>> to report this, and have little time for continued testing of it. I
>>> leave that to you, the developers.
>>>
>>> I ran into two different bugs attempting to try QEMU 0.11, under
>>> CentOS 5.3 64bit (fully updated), QEMU compiled from source
>>> flawlessly, while under under VirtualBox on a Lenvo T400 laptop.
>>>
>>> My goal was to try to boot an AIX CDROM from QEMU 0.11 (AIX 6.1), I
>>> never got that far due to these bugs.
>>>
>>>
>>> Bug #1:
>>>
>>> It seems to complain about some 1MB BIOS file being missing or
>>> dysfunctional, really I did not see any BIOS files that big, so, I
>>> gave up with this type of boot. Then I tried below, "Bug #2", met with
>>> more problems, so I gave up entirely as I had no more time to play
>>> with it.
>>>
>>> /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ppc -nographic -hda aix.raw -cdrom
>>> ./Image_091013_1359.iso -M prep
>>> qemu: hardware error: PowerPC 601 / 620 / 970 need a 1MB BIOS
>>>
>>> CPU #0:
>>> NIP fff00100   LR 00000000 CTR 00000000 XER 00000000
>>> MSR 00000040 HID0 00000000  HF 00000000 idx 1
>>> TB 00000000 00000000 DECR ffffffff
>>> GPR00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> GPR04 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> GPR08 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> GPR12 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> GPR16 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> GPR20 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> GPR24 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> GPR28 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> CR 00000000  [ -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  ]             RES ffffffff
>>> FPR00 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> FPR04 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> FPR08 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> FPR12 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> FPR16 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> FPR20 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> FPR24 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> FPR28 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>> FPSCR 00000000
>>> SRR0 00000000 SRR1 00000000 SDR1 00000000
>>> t: line 5: 11668 Aborted
>>> /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ppc -nographic -hda aix.raw -cdrom
>>> ./Image_091013_1359.iso -M prep
>>> [root@localhost qemu]#
>>
>> To boot AIX6.1, you must emulate a CHRP with at least a POWER4.
>> Moreover, AIX6.1 needs the hypervisor support in OpenFirmware (which  
>> is not the case of OpenBIOS).
>>
>>>
>>> Bug #2: never even tries to boot from CD-ROM and gives some wildly odd
>>> error and display messages.
>>>
>>>
>>> /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-ppc -nographic -hda aix.raw -cdrom
>>> ./Image_091013_1359.iso -M g3beige
>>>
>>>>> =============================================================
>>>>> OpenBIOS 1.0 [Jul 5 2009 17:36]
>>>>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2
>>>>> CPUs: 1
>>>>> Memory: 128M
>>>>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>>>>> CPU type PowerPC,750
>>> Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Jul 5 2009 17:36
>>>
>>>>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>>>
>>> 0 > boot cdrom
>>>>> partition 2 does not exist
>>>
>>>>> partition 2 does not exist
>>>
>>>>> partition 2 does not exist
>>>
>>>>> partition 2 does not exist
>>>
>>>>> partition 2 does not exist
>>>
>>>>> partition 2 does not exist
>>>
>>>>> partition 2 does not exist
>>>
>>>>> partition 2 does not exist
>>>
>>>>> partition 2 does not exist
>>>
>>>>> partition 2 does not exist
>>>
>>>>> partition 2 does not exist
>>
>> This should be corrected in OpenBIOS HEAD SVN repository.
>>
>>>>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>>>>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>>>>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>>>>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>>>>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>>>>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>>>>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>>>>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>>>>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>>>>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>>>>> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>>>  ok
>>
>> Regards,
>> Laurent
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>>
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