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

[Alexander Graf]

On 23.03.2011, at 15:55, Alexander Graf wrote:

> 
> On 23.03.2011, at 15:45, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 23.03.2011, at 06:30, David Gibson wrote:
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>>> 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 :).

-drive ...if=scsi did the trick. It might be good to document all this 
somewhere :)


Alex