Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu s390x emulation

[Alexander Graf]

On 15.01.2013, at 12:39, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:

> On 01/15/2013 04:39 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> 
>> On 15.01.2013, at 12:05, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> I have been trying to setup a qemu session for qemu-system-s390x (on
>>> x86_64) using a kernel (with initramfs built-in the kernel) without a
>>> disk image. The kernel was built with s390 defconfig + disabled loadable
>>> modules (just to keep everything inside the kernel).
>>> 
>>> $ qemu-system-s390x -M s390 -kernel vmlinux -m 1024
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The session dies in say 2 secs, with an exit code of 0. I searched for
>>> some hints / success stories, couldn't find any.
>>> 
>>> Am I doing something wrong here ? Please let me know the right procedure
>>> for getting this up and running.
>> 
>> S390 boots using an "image" file. Please try -kernel <kernel 
>> dir>/arch/s390/boot/image.
>> 
> Tried that even, but not any better. btw, moved to the upstream git for qemu.
> 
> 0
> $/data/src/qemu/s390x-softmmu/qemu-system-s390x  -m 1024 -kernel ./image 
> -nographic
> $echo $?
> 0
> $file ./image
> ./image: Linux S390
> 
> $ cd /data/src/qemu/ ; git log | head -n1
> commit cf7c3f0cb5a7129f57fa9e69d410d6a05031988c

Does this one work for you?

http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-s390/current/images/generic/kernel.debian


Alex