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

[Gary Gatling]

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

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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.

[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.

Post by Gary Gatling
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.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Post by 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.

Late reply, but here's how to get Fedora 21 working under libvirt:

https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/virt-builder-fedora-21-ppc64-and-ppc64le-images/

Internally we have RHEL 7.1 ppc64 (BE and LE) images running the same
way, but I can't share those images.

Rich.