[fedora-virt] qemu-system-ppc with rhel-server-6.6-ppc64-dvd.iso

Gary Gatling gsgatlin at ncsu.edu
Thu Apr 30 18:32:24 UTC 2015


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

http://i.imgur.com/qDm2m0t.png

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.
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