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Re: [Qemu-devel] AIX emulated on x86 host


From: Stefan Hajnoczi
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] AIX emulated on x86 host
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:34:27 +0100

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:23 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sorry - first message had non-plain text by mistake. Trying again ...
>
> I have an old AIX machine (IBM RS/6000 running AIX v5.x) and it's about to
> fall apart. I would like to migrate that machine's functions onto one of
> my VMware hosts, all of which are DELL 2950 servers (x86 architecture). I
> know VMware only runs x86 architecture guests. So I am planning a Windows
> 2003 Server guest, running QEMU as really the only thing it is doing and
> inside QEMU I want to run that AIX machine's functions.
>
> Fundamental question - think that will work?
>
> If the answer is YES then I need to worry about creating the PPC disk
> image, loading AIX onto it, loading my AIX applications and migrating the
> data from the old hardware to the new emulated machine. Think I'm nuts?
> Got a better alternative?

I'm not aware of people doing this or whether the ppc targets
supported by QEMU can even run AIX hardware/firmware-wise.  Perhaps
someone has a definitive answer?

Stefan



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