Re: [Qemu-devel] [PPC64] P5020DS: Booting from img possible (-drive)?

[Thomas Huth]

On 18.05.2018 08:01, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
> |Hello,
> 
> I was able to boot a Linux kernel (uImage) with an initrd in a virtual
> P5020DS PPC64 machine with an e5500 core (QEMU 2.12.0) with the
> following command.
> 
> qemu-system-ppc64 -M ppce500 -cpu e5500 -m 2048 -initrd
> /home/christian/Downloads/slitaz25.gz -nographic -kernel
> /home/christian/Downloads/vmlinux-4.17-rc5-AmigaOne_X1000_X5000/X5000/uImage-4.17
> -net nic,vlan=0,model=e1000 -net user,vlan=0 -machine
> dt_compatible=fsl,,P5020DS -append "root=/dev/ramdisk"
> 
> It also works with the machine 'MPC8544DS':
> 
> qemu-system-ppc64 -M mpc8544ds -cpu e5500 -m 2048 -initrd
> /home/christian/Downloads/slitaz25.gz -nographic -kernel
> /home/christian/Downloads/vmlinux-4.17-rc5-AmigaOne_X1000_X5000/X5000/uImage-4.17
> -net nic,vlan=0,model=e1000 -net user,vlan=0 -machine
> dt_compatible=fsl,,P5020DS -append "root=/dev/ramdisk"

These two machines ppce500 and mpc8544ds are "embedded" PowerPC machines...

> I tried to boot ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS PowerPC from an img with the
> option '-drive' but without any success. Is it possible to boot from a
> hard disk img with a virtual P5020DS PPC64 machine? Can I use a virtual
> graphics card with this machine?

... but according to http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/16.04/release/
Ubuntu 16.04 is for Apple and IBM machines only, so I don't think that
you'll be able to run this on an embedded PPC machine?

 Thomas