Just making sure Cedric is also seeing this... -Klaus
On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 10:27 AM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> wrote: > Cc'ing qemu-ppc@ > > On 7/30/21 6:25 AM, Lindsay Ryan wrote: > > Hi > > I'm trying to emulate some physical IBM Power 9's that we have. There > > seems to be plenty of examples of using x86_64 qemu, but slightly less > > for Power. Unless it's specifically for installing AIX > > Anyway, I'm trying to boot the VM as I guess a bare metal Power 9 box, > > then install redhat from Iso on a disk and have it on the network. > > > > ./qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER9 -smp cpus=4 -machine pseries -m 4096 -M > > accel=tcg -serial stdio -nodefaults -nographic -device > > megasas,id=scsi0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -drive > > > file=/home/hdisk1.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,format=qcow2,cache=none > > -device > > > scsi-hd,bus=scsi0.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0,drive=drive-scsi0-0-0-0,id=scsi0-0-0-0,bootindex=2 > > -cdrom /mnt/images/rhel-8.4-ppc64le-boot.iso -monitor > > telnet:0.0.0.0:3344,server,nowait -netdev > > bridge,id=net0,helper=qemu-bridge-helper,br=bridge0,id=hostnet0 > > > > So the megasas gets detected as a raid controller. Yay. > > But my qcow2 disk image doesn't seem to be plugged into it correctly as > > it's not detected. > > It sees the cdrom image and I can boot from it. > > The other thing I can't get working is the network card. > > > > On this host system I have some other x86 kvm's running. So Ideally if I > > could plug the nic on this vm into > > 7: virbr0 > > > > 6: bridge0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue > > state UP group default qlen 1000 > > link/ether 00:25:b5:04:2a:1e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > inet 10.126.24.82/24 brd 10.126.24.255 scope global noprefixroute > > bridge0 > > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > > inet6 fe80::76a8:89ec:fc62:9c94/64 scope link noprefixroute > > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > > 7: virbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue > > state UP group default qlen 1000 > > link/ether 52:54:00:51:db:be brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > inet 192.168.122.1/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global virbr0 > > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > > > > If I can't do that, then I really only need the ppc64 guest to have > > access out to the internet and I can nat anything incoming > > > > Any help, particularly about how to plug virtual disk drives into > > virtual disk controllers would be helpful > > regards > > > > > > Ryan Lindsay BEng, MSc. > > Linux Storage Administrator > > Research Computing Facility > > > > > > *Disclaimer: *This email (including any attachments or links) may > > contain confidential and/or legally privileged information and is > > intended only to be read or used by the addressee. If you are not the > > intended addressee, any use, distribution, disclosure or copying of this > > email is strictly prohibited. Confidentiality and legal privilege > > attached to this email (including any attachments) are not waived or > > lost by reason of its mistaken delivery to you. If you have received > > this email in error, please delete it and notify us immediately by > > telephone or email. Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre provides no guarantee > > that this transmission is free of virus or that it has not been > > intercepted or altered and will not be liable for any delay in its > receipt. > > > > > -- Klaus Heinrich Kiwi <kk...@redhat.com> Manager, Software Engineering - Red Hat Virtualization
