Fedora ppc64 install fails on qemu-system-ppc64

[Tony Breeds]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 02:28:09PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have a working recipe for installing Fedora on
> qemu-system-ppc64 (host is x86-64)?  I've been trying it for about a
> day now, and just keep hitting bugs.
> 
> I can get the Fedora 19 netinst and DVD to boot fine using upstream
> qemu from git and the following command:
> 
> ./ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 \
>   -cpu POWER7 \
>   -M pseries \
>   -m 4096 \
>   -hda /dev/fedora/f20ppc64 \
>   -cdrom /tmp/Fedora-19-ppc64-DVD.iso \
>   -netdev user,id=usernet,net=169.254.0.0/16 \
>   -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=usernet

You can try chaning the -cpu to 970 or other options.  F19 installed on
my G5 so 970 /should/ work.
 
> However X11 cannot render anything:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1002030
> What graphics device does qemu emulate?  Are there alternatives
> I could try?

I think you're best option is a vnc install.  As I understand it it's
just a simple OpenFirmware FB (OFFB) and the appropriate xorg driver.
 
> Using a text-mode non-LVM Anaconda install proceeds a little further,
> although is still buggy:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1001792
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=966289#c37
> 
> Finally it fails with "script error with package [some package name]":
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1002077

I'm pretty sure this will come down to the gcc in Ferdora is generating
VSX instructions but qemu doesn't emulate them.  Short of writing that
emulation code I think you're sunk with the std. images.

Yours Tony
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