What are the prospects for qemu-system-ppc being improved to the point where I can do a vanilla install of popular ppc32-linux distros?
I've tried a vanilla install of Debian Sarge (3.1). That went smoothly, except for the stage right at the end, where the disk image is made bootable. The resulting disk image is, despite much messing around, not bootable (using QEMU from cvs). Vesselin Peev made a ppc32 Debian Sarge image with a specially modified external kernel to work around this problem (http://free.oszoo.org/ftp/images/debian_sarge_ppc.tar.torrent) and that does work. Unfortunately QEMU consumes 100% host CPU even when the virtual machine is idle, which means it's not useful for a long-running virtual server. And the reliance on a specially modified kernel means normal updating/upgrading of the virtual machine isn't possible. My goal is to run a farm of QEMU virtual ppc32 machines to do overnight builds/tests of Valgrind on different ppc32 distros. J _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
