On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:23 PM, <glen.c.bo...@esso.ca> wrote: > Sorry - first message had non-plain text by mistake. Trying again ... > > I have an old AIX machine (IBM RS/6000 running AIX v5.x) and it's about to > fall apart. I would like to migrate that machine's functions onto one of > my VMware hosts, all of which are DELL 2950 servers (x86 architecture). I > know VMware only runs x86 architecture guests. So I am planning a Windows > 2003 Server guest, running QEMU as really the only thing it is doing and > inside QEMU I want to run that AIX machine's functions. > > Fundamental question - think that will work? > > If the answer is YES then I need to worry about creating the PPC disk > image, loading AIX onto it, loading my AIX applications and migrating the > data from the old hardware to the new emulated machine. Think I'm nuts? > Got a better alternative?
I'm not aware of people doing this or whether the ppc targets supported by QEMU can even run AIX hardware/firmware-wise. Perhaps someone has a definitive answer? Stefan
