Re: Qemu / KVM On Powermac G5 MP970

[Dan Whitehouse]

I have very slowly started to look at this.
So far I have two guests which “work” with qemu (no kvm yet).

I have a MacOS 9 Guest which is virtually unusable due to poor mouse tracking:

#!/bin/bash

qemu-system-ppc64 \
  -L pc-bios \
  -boot c \
  -M mac99 \
  -m 1024 \
  -prom-env 'auto-boot?=true' \
  -prom-env 'boot-args=-v' \
  -prom-env 'vga-ndrv?=true' \
  -drive file=/srv/tmp/macos92-disk1.img,format=raw,media=disk \
  -netdev user,id=mynet0,net=192.168.76.0/24,dhcpstart=192.168.76.10 \
  -device sungem,netdev=mynet0 \
  -cpu 7400 \
  -monitor stdio

Perhaps more useful for testing I have a 32-bit Debian install:

#!/bin/bash

qemu-system-ppc \
  -L pc-bios \
  -boot c \
  -M mac99 \
  -cpu 7400 \
  -m 2048 \
  -prom-env 'auto-boot?=true' \
  -prom-env 'boot-args=-v' \
  -prom-env 'vga-ndrv?=true' \
  -drive file=/srv/tmp/debian_32bit.qcow2,format=qcow2,media=disk \
  -netdev user,id=mynet0,net=192.168.76.0/24,dhcpstart=192.168.76.10 \
  -device sungem,netdev=mynet0 \
  -monitor stdio

I suppose the first thing I need to get my head round is “qemu-system-ppc” vs. 
“qemu-system-ppc64”.
Initially I had been using the latter for both but found that the Debian 
machine would not boot properly and I could not log in (I think some bits of 
systemd were timing out in the guest preventing it from booting fully). 

I haven’t tried yet, but I wonder if the former works better with the MacOS 9 
image. 

I suppose that in both case the “7400” is a 32-bit CPU (is that right?) so 
therefore the former (qemu-system-ppc) makes sense?

Thanks,

Dan