Re: need help with my config

[Cédric Le Goater]

Hello,

On 7/30/21 3:25 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Cc'ing qemu-ppc@
> 
> On 7/30/21 6:25 AM, Lindsay Ryan wrote:
>> Hi
>> I'm trying to emulate some physical IBM Power 9's that we have. There
>> seems to be plenty of examples of using x86_64 qemu, but slightly less
>> for Power. 

For baremetal emulation, please use the PowerNV machine. See this page : 

  https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/ppc/powernv.html

HW is not fully emulated but QEMU has enough support to start a multichip
system running any distro.  

>> Unless it's specifically for installing AIX

AIX only runs under the pseries machine (virtualized) and not on baremetal. 

>> Anyway, I'm trying to boot the VM as I guess a bare metal Power 9 box,
>> then install redhat from Iso on a disk and have it on the network.
>>
>> ./qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER9 -smp cpus=4 -machine pseries -m 4096 -M
>> accel=tcg  -serial stdio -nodefaults -nographic -device
>> megasas,id=scsi0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -drive
>> file=/home/hdisk1.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,format=qcow2,cache=none
>> -device
>> scsi-hd,bus=scsi0.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0,drive=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,id=scsi0-0-0-0,bootindex=2
>> -cdrom /mnt/images/rhel-8.4-ppc64le-boot.iso -monitor
>> telnet:0.0.0.0:3344,server,nowait -netdev
>> bridge,id=net0,helper=qemu-bridge-helper,br=bridge0,id=hostnet0

This is a pseries machine (virtualized) and not baremetal.

Which machine do you want to run ? pseries is the VM platform as run by KVM, 
It can run under TCG also. PowerNV is the baremetal platform on which KVM 
runs using the OPAL firmware. QEMU only has a PowerNV emulator, so TCG. 

These are two very different PPC machines.

>> So the megasas gets detected as a raid controller. Yay. 
>> But my qcow2 disk image doesn't seem to be plugged into it correctly as
>> it's not detected. 
>> It sees the cdrom image and I can boot from it.
>> The other thing I can't get working is the network card. 

because you don't have any :) Add a device and link it to the netdev.


That's how I run a TCG pseries POWER9 machine on my x86 laptop:

qemu-system-ppc64 -M 
pseries,cap-cfpc=workaround,cap-sbbc=workaround,cap-ibs=workaround,cap-ccf-assist=on,ic-mode=dual
 -m 4G -accel tcg,thread=multi -cpu POWER9 -smp 4,cores=4,maxcpus=8,threads=1 
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mac=C0:FF:EE:00:00:02,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2 
-netdev tap,id=net0,helper=/usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper,br=virbr0,vhost=on 
-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1 -drive 
file=./ubuntu-ppc64le.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,format=qcow2,cache=none
 -device 
scsi-hd,bus=scsi0.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0,drive=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,id=scsi0-0-0-0,bootindex=1
 -device qemu-xhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -nographic -nodefaults -serial 
mon:stdio    

and a PowerNV POWER9 machine :

qemu-system-ppc64 -m 4G -machine powernv9 -smp 2 -accel tcg,thread=multi 
-kernel ./open-power/images/witherspoon-latest/zImage.epapr -initrd 
./open-power/images/witherspoon-latest/rootfs.cpio.xz -bios 
./open-power/images/witherspoon-latest/skiboot.lid -device 
pcie-pci-bridge,id=bridge1,bus=pcie.1,addr=0x0 -device 
ich9-ahci,id=sata0,bus=pcie.0,addr=0x0 -drive 
file=./ubuntu-ppc64le-powernv.qcow2,if=none,id=drive0,format=qcow2,cache=none 
-device ide-hd,bus=sata0.0,unit=0,drive=drive0,id=ide,bootindex=1 -device 
e1000e,netdev=net0,mac=C0:FF:EE:00:01:03,bus=bridge1,addr=0x3 -netdev 
bridge,helper=/usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper,br=virbr0,id=net0 -device 
nec-usb-xhci,bus=bridge1,addr=0x2 -device usb-storage,drive=usbkey -drive 
file=./usb.img,if=none,id=usbkey,format=raw,cache=none -serial mon:stdio 
-nographic

You will need firmware images for the latter.


Cheers,
C.