<div dir="ltr">Hmnn. Looks like I needed qemu-system-ppc64. Seems to be working with that with RHEL 6 dvd. So nevermind. :) Sorry for the noise.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Gary Gatling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gsgatlin@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">gsgatlin@ncsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Has anyone been able to emulate a PPC system to run RHEL 6 in qemu? I had a build for epel 6 that was failing on ppc64. (It does work on epel 7 ppc however)</div><div><br></div><div><div>I was hoping to figure out what is wrong by taking a closer look via ppc emulation and running rpmbuild within it.</div><div><br></div><div>But when I try to install it on a fedora 21 laptop I get</div><div><br></div><div>qemu-system-ppc -boot d -cdrom rhel-server-6.6-ppc64-dvd.iso -m 1024 -hda ppcdisk.img</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://i.imgur.com/qDm2m0t.png" target="_blank">http://i.imgur.com/qDm2m0t.png</a></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe some other distro would work better for this then fedora 21? Or is there something I have to type at openboot prompt to get the installer started?</div><div><br></div><div>I can run</div><div><br></div><div>qemu-system-ppc -boot d -cdrom rhel-server-6.6-ppc64-dvd.iso -m 1024 -hda ppcdisk.img -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false'</div><div><br></div><div>and then I can do a "dir" on the dvd iso. I just can't seem to boot it.</div><div><br></div><div>I was able to boot a ubuntu ppc mini.iso. Just not RHEL 6 ppc iso.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for any ideas anyone has.</div></div></div>
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