Does anyone have a working recipe for installing Fedora on
qemu-system-ppc64 (host is x86-64)? I've been trying it for about a
day now, and just keep hitting bugs.
I can get the Fedora 19 netinst and DVD to boot fine using upstream
qemu from git and the following command:
./ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 \
-cpu POWER7 \
-M pseries \
-m 4096 \
-hda /dev/fedora/f20ppc64 \
-cdrom /tmp/Fedora-19-ppc64-DVD.iso \
-netdev user,id=usernet,net=169.254.0.0/16 \
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=usernet
However X11 cannot render anything:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1002030
What graphics device does qemu emulate? Are there alternatives
I could try?
Using a text-mode non-LVM Anaconda install proceeds a little further,
although is still buggy:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1001792https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=966289#c37
Finally it fails with "script error with package [some package name]":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1002077
And that's as far as I've got.
Rich.
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Did some testing, but both DVD and netinst CD fail to boot successfully on Apple G5. The images are not recognized as valid boot disks and computer always boots from hard drive after pressing C during startup chime.
See Bugzilla report : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998030