[Qemu-devel] AIX emulated on x86 host

[glen . c . bodie]

Sorry - first message had non-plain text by mistake. Trying again ...

I have an old AIX machine (IBM RS/6000 running AIX v5.x) and it's about to 
fall apart. I would like to migrate that machine's functions onto one of 
my VMware hosts, all of which are DELL 2950 servers (x86 architecture). I 
know VMware only runs x86 architecture guests. So I am planning a Windows 
2003 Server guest, running QEMU as really the only thing it is doing and 
inside QEMU I want to run that AIX machine's functions.

Fundamental question - think that will work?

If the answer is YES then I need to worry about creating the PPC disk 
image, loading AIX onto it, loading my AIX applications and migrating the 
data from the old hardware to the new emulated machine. Think I'm nuts? 
Got a better alternative?

Regards - Glen