Re: [Qemu-devel] R: issue related to boot aix 7.1 when I try to use qemu ppc64

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 15:09, Muolo Vincenzo (S.I.)
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi David Thanks also for for answer
>
> Now I try to install the qemu (4.1) into DEB Server  ( 
> qemu_4.1-1+b1_ppc64.deb   )  however I had the following error :
>
> apt install /home/vmuolo/qemu_4.1-1+b1_ppc64.deb
> dpkg: error in processing the archive /home/vmuolo/qemu_4.1-1+b1_ppc64.deb 
> (--unpack):
>
>   the package architecture (ppc64) does not match that of the system (amd64)
>
> Now this means that the "old" package qemu  ppc is valid only for 32 bits or 
> no (?)

This means you're trying to install a package intended for
PPC64 *hosts* on your x86-64 box. You want the package for amd64
hosts, which should include the 'qemu-system-ppc64' executable that
supports PPC64 guests (as well as the executables for all
the other guest architectures QEMU supports).

thanks
-- PMM