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

[Alexander Graf]

On 02.04.2011, at 01:21, Alexander Graf wrote:

> 
> 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.

Yup, manually specifying "install64" works.


Alex