[Qemu-devel] [PPC64] P5020DS: Booting from img possible (-drive)?

[Christian Zigotzky]

It works on my AmigaOne X5000 (P5020 board with 2x e5500 cores).

Screenshots: https://plus.google.com/115515624056477014971

— Christian

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> On 18. May 2018, at 10:54, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On 18.05.2018 08:01, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I was able to boot a Linux kernel (uImage) with an initrd in a virtual
>> P5020DS PPC64 machine with an e5500 core (QEMU 2.12.0) with the
>> following command.
>> 
>> qemu-system-ppc64 -M ppce500 -cpu e5500 -m 2048 -initrd
>> /home/christian/Downloads/slitaz25.gz -nographic -kernel
>> /home/christian/Downloads/vmlinux-4.17-rc5-AmigaOne_X1000_X5000/X5000/uImage-4.17
>> -net nic,vlan=0,model=e1000 -net user,vlan=0 -machine
>> dt_compatible=fsl,,P5020DS -append "root=/dev/ramdisk"
>> 
>> It also works with the machine 'MPC8544DS':
>> 
>> qemu-system-ppc64 -M mpc8544ds -cpu e5500 -m 2048 -initrd
>> /home/christian/Downloads/slitaz25.gz -nographic -kernel
>> /home/christian/Downloads/vmlinux-4.17-rc5-AmigaOne_X1000_X5000/X5000/uImage-4.17
>> -net nic,vlan=0,model=e1000 -net user,vlan=0 -machine
>> dt_compatible=fsl,,P5020DS -append "root=/dev/ramdisk"
> 
> These two machines ppce500 and mpc8544ds are "embedded" PowerPC machines...
> 
>> I tried to boot ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS PowerPC from an img with the
>> option '-drive' but without any success. Is it possible to boot from a
>> hard disk img with a virtual P5020DS PPC64 machine? Can I use a virtual
>> graphics card with this machine?
> 
> ... but according to http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/16.04/release/
> Ubuntu 16.04 is for Apple and IBM machines only, so I don't think that
> you'll be able to run this on an embedded PPC machine?
> 
> Thomas