[Qemu-devel] Re: [0/27] Implement emulation of pSeries logical partitions (v4)

[Alexander Graf]

On 23.03.2011, at 06:30, 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.

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?


Alex