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

[Alexander Graf]

On 23.03.2011, at 15:45, Alexander Graf wrote:

> 
> 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?

Ok, -kernel works. I was trying to load a non-kernel as kernel :).


Alex