Re: [Qemu-devel] [0/27] Implement emulation of pSeries logical partitions (v6)

[Anthony Liguori]

On 04/01/2011 07:06 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 02.04.2011, at 01:21, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> > On 01.04.2011, at 21:22, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >
> > > On 04/01/2011 01:01 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > > > On 01.04.2011, at 19:28, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On 03/31/2011 11:15 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> > > > > > This patch series adds a "pseries" machine to qemu, allowing it to
> > > > > > emulate IBM pSeries logical partitions.  More specifically it
> > > > > > implements the interface defined by the "PowerPC Architecture Platform
> > > > > > Requirements" document (PAPR, or sPAPR for short).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Along the way we add a bunch of support for more modern ppc CPUs than
> > > > > > are currently supported.  It also makes some significant cleanups to
> > > > > > the translation code for hash page table based ppc MMUs.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Please apply.
> > > > > So what's a typical invocation for this?  Is:
> > > > >
> > > > > qemu-system-ppc64 -m pseries foo.img -nographics
> > > > If you run an image that requires firmare, you also need to pass in -m with at 
> > > > least 512MB, otherwise yes, that's how it works :).
> > >
> > > Here's the output on the serial console.  Looks like it's in a tight loop 
> > > probably writing \r or something and redrawing the prompt which our console 
> > > emulation doesn't like.
> > >
> > > E3406: Client application returned an error:    undefined word
> > >
> > >        ..`. ..     .......  ..           ......      .......
> > >    ..`...`''.`'. .''``````..''.       .`''```''`.  `''``````
> > >       .`` .:' ': `''.....  .''.       ''`     .''..''.......
> > >         ``.':.';. ``````''`.''.      .''.      ''``''`````'`
> > >         ``.':':`   .....`''.`'`...... `'`.....`''.`'`
> > >        .`.`'``   .'`'`````.  ``''''''  ``''`'''`. `'`
> > > Type 'boot'  and press return  to  continue  booting  the system.
> > > Type 'reset-all'  and  press  return  to   reboot   the   system.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ( 700 ) Program Exception [ 1 ]
> > This probably means that you're trying to run a ppc32 kernel :). No promises on 
> > that guess though.
> Yup, manually specifying "install64" works.

Ah, perfect!  I guess I'm showing my naivety when it comes to Power here :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Alex