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AIX 7.2 running on my Macbook?
After reading this http
Well, the answer my friends, is yes...sort of.
Many thanks to Rob McNelly who originally tweeted this link, http
Also, thanks to Liang Guo for his assistance. Your guidance was greatly appreciated.
Note: What I describe here is NOT supported by IBM. It is purely a lab experiment to see what was possible with qemu-system-ppc64.
If you want to follow along at home, please follow and test the steps outlined here, http
I've never used QEMU until now. So all of this is very new to me. I'm still learning, so if you see something wrong with my instructions. Sorry. I'll do better next time.
The first thing you need to do, is install AIX 7.2 in a
Logical Partition (LPAR VM), on a Power system, somewhere. If you don't
have an IBM Power System of your own, you could try using the http
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Thanks for posting this information. Your combined steps worked great! Now I'm going to see if I can run it on either my Google gce, or my aws ec2 as a hypervisor. Technically I could run AIX on AWS. Pretty cool!
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Hi Chris,
Thanks for the sharing, I tried it on my Mac and it worked fine.
I
used below -net user,hostfwd option, and set en0's IP address as
10.0.2.15 on guest AIX, and then I could ssh to guest AIX from my Mac.
qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER8 -machine pseries -m 2048 -serial mon:stdio \
-drive file=AIX72.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0 \
-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi -device scsi-hd,drive=drive-virtio-disk0 \
-cdrom AIX723SP1.iso \
-net nic -monitor telnet:localhost:7777,server,nowait \
-net user,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 \
-prom-env boot-command='boot disk:'
$ ssh -p 2222 root@localhost
And I could login the qemu monitor interface.
$tn localhost 7777
(qemu) info status
VM status: running
(qemu) info usernet
Hub 0 (user.0):
Protocol[State] FD Source Address Port Dest. Address Port RecvQ SendQ
TCP[ESTABLISHED] 33 127.0.0.1 2222 10.0.2.15 22 0 0
TCP[HOST_FORWARD] 17 * 2222 10.0.2.15 22 0 0
Thanks,
Regards,
Surge
