On 10.11.2011, at 00:23, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 10.11.2011 00:21, schrieb Alexander Graf: >> >> >> Am 10.11.2011 um 00:20 schrieb Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de>: >> >>> Am 10.11.2011 00:18, schrieb Alexander Graf: >>>> Am 09.11.2011 um 23:53 schrieb Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de>: >>>>> I get the following error: >>>>> >>>>> $ s390x-softmmu/qemu-system-s390x >>>>> qemu-system-s390x: Guest moved used index from 0 to 47802 >>>>> >>>>> Same if specifying SLES 11 SP2 Beta8 DVD .iso via -cdrom. >>>>> >>>>> First time trying it, am I missing anything? >>>>> The error message is not really telling either way and should be fixed. >>>> >>>> S390 doesn't have a standardized way of booting off CDs, so you have to >>>> manually run the image from the CD by passing it to -kernel. It's done the >>>> same way on real hardware :(. >>> >>> Fine with me. Just please have the emulator say so! :) >> >> Hm. That is zipl business really. It should print a warning when it can't >> find a boot record I suppose :). > > Or the machine, knowing what QEMU-specific firmware it uses, could error > if it doesn't get -kernel arguments. :) Me, I don't know zipl.
There is a very simple zipl-derived bootloader in QEMU that can boot off disk images. It just can't boot off CDs: http://repo.or.cz/w/s390-tools.git/shortlog/refs/heads/virtio-zipl Alex
