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

[Gary Gatling]

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 at 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
>
> 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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