Re: [Qemu-devel] [0/27] Implement emulation of pSeries logical partitions (v6)

[Alexander Graf]

On 01.04.2011, at 21:22, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> On 04/01/2011 01:01 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 01.04.2011, at 19:28, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> 
>>> On 03/31/2011 11:15 PM, David Gibson wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> Please apply.
>>> So what's a typical invocation for this?  Is:
>>> 
>>> qemu-system-ppc64 -m pseries foo.img -nographics
>> If you run an image that requires firmare, you also need to pass in -m with 
>> at least 512MB, otherwise yes, that's how it works :).
> 
> 
> Here's the output on the serial console.  Looks like it's in a tight loop 
> probably writing \r or something and redrawing the prompt which our console 
> emulation doesn't like.
> 
> E3406: Client application returned an error:    undefined word
> 
>        ..`. ..     .......  ..           ......      .......
>    ..`...`''.`'. .''``````..''.       .`''```''`.  `''``````
>       .`` .:' ': `''.....  .''.       ''`     .''..''.......
>         ``.':.';. ``````''`.''.      .''.      ''``''`````'`
>         ``.':':`   .....`''.`'`...... `'`.....`''.`'`
>        .`.`'``   .'`'`````.  ``''''''  ``''`'''`. `'`
>  Type 'boot'  and press return  to  continue  booting  the system.
>  Type 'reset-all'  and  press  return  to   reboot   the   system.
> 
> 
> 
> ( 700 ) Program Exception [ 1 ]

This probably means that you're trying to run a ppc32 kernel :). No promises on 
that guess though.


Alex