Hmnn. Looks like I needed qemu-system-ppc64. Seems to be working with that with RHEL 6 dvd. So nevermind. :) Sorry for the noise.

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Gary Gatling <gsgatlin@ncsu.edu> wrote:
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)

I was hoping to figure out what is wrong by taking a closer look via ppc emulation and running rpmbuild within it.

But when I try to install it on a fedora 21 laptop I get

qemu-system-ppc -boot d -cdrom rhel-server-6.6-ppc64-dvd.iso -m 1024 -hda ppcdisk.img


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?

I can run

qemu-system-ppc -boot d -cdrom rhel-server-6.6-ppc64-dvd.iso -m 1024 -hda ppcdisk.img -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false'

and then I can do a "dir" on the dvd iso. I just can't seem to boot it.

I was able to boot a ubuntu ppc mini.iso. Just not RHEL 6 ppc iso.

Thanks for any ideas anyone has.