On 23.03.2011, at 15:55, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 23.03.2011, at 15:45, Alexander Graf wrote: > >> >> On 23.03.2011, at 06:30, 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. >> >> What's the magic to start a guest? I tried passing a disk which SLOF didn't >> detect (obviously - there's no IDE there). I also tried running a kernel >> directly with -kernel which gave me no output. How are you usually running >> your images? > > Ok, -kernel works. I was trying to load a non-kernel as kernel :).
-drive ...if=scsi did the trick. It might be good to document all this somewhere :) Alex