On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 22:22 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Hollis Blanchard wrote: > >> Unfortunately I wasn't able to get an F8 ppc rescue cd ISO to boot with > >> qemu 0.9.0. Can you point me to a working combination? > >> > > > > It's difficult to get anything booting with upstream PowerPC qemu, > > mostly because of the unmaintained firmware they use (called Open > > Hackware). > > > > That said, upstream qemu does not support 440 cores, which is what our > > KVM work is targeting. Also, Fedora 8 doesn't either, though it may be > > possible to get F8 working by providing your own kernel and some small > > configuration tweaks (inittab, securetty). > > > > There are other distributions that will work with little to no tweaking > > for 440, but until we can get IO (other than console) working we have > > been using very simple root filesystems. > > > > However, none of these will be useful to you in KVM unless you have a > > 440 host to run them on. > > > > Originally you said you just need a kernel tree to build against. Can > > you elaborate on what you're trying to do now? > > > > I'd like to have a full setup so I can do run testing as well.
I'd love to help make this happen. > I was thinking of running a ppc distro on qemu, and building and running > kvm-ppc on that to test. This isn't going to work in the near future, because KVM today requires a 440 host, and qemu today doesn't emulate 440 instructions. > Even if I don't run it, it's a much better > build-time environment. Of course running the unit tests and an image > or two will be even better. > > So, at best, I'd like an emulation environment that allows me to build > and run; at worst, build only. Building would be better done with a cross-compiler than inside qemu. -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
