QEMU s390/s390x install.

[Mestnik, Michael J - Eagan, MN - Contractor]

Hello,
I've an amd64 squeeze install with qemu 1.1.2. An example command line for me looks like this, with the iso loop mounted to /mnt.

qemu-system-s390x -cdrom debian-wheezy-DI-b3-s390x-DVD-1.iso debian-wheezy-DI-b3-s390x-DVD-1.iso -kernel /mnt/boot/linux_vm -initrd /mnt/boot/root.bin -append "ro locale=C " -serial vc -no-shutdown

The results are the VM halts seemingly as step one, thus the last option to not exit. There is unfortunately no output on the console or the serial port.

Any advice? Would there potentially be a how-to posted? Sounds like I'm not the only one to have problems here, though from what I can tell it looks like ppl are figuring it out and then abandoning their posts.

Cheers.

Mike Mestnik, Michael J
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[Philipp Kern]

Post by Mestnik, Michael J - Eagan, MN - Contractor
Any advice? Would there potentially be a how-to posted? Sounds like
I'm not the only one to have problems here, though from what I can tell
it looks like ppl are figuring it out and then abandoning their posts.

True. KVM (which is basically »-enable-kvm« passed to qemu) on s390x
itself works, it's just plain qemu-system-s390x on non-System z hardware
that doesn't. Hence you could also use hercules to get started.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern