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Re: [Qemu-devel] AIX emulated on x86 host
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Natalia Portillo |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] AIX emulated on x86 host |
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Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:42:37 +0100 |
The last thing I've heard about that was long time ago when I and Jocelyn tried
to make it work with OpenHackWare to no luck.
Anyway, right now, it does not work either, I just don't know if anyone is
working on it.
I know that the AIX boot process is quite different (using MBR partition
scheme, different memory maps).
Sorry but right now, "Does AIX/RS6000 work on QEMU?" is NO.
Regards,
Natalia Portillo
El 28/10/2010, a las 16:34, Stefan Hajnoczi escribió:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:23 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I'm not aware of people doing this or whether the ppc targets
> supported by QEMU can even run AIX hardware/firmware-wise. Perhaps
> someone has a definitive answer?
>
> Stefan
>