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Hi! I'm Julia. I am from Germany and go by she/her or they/them pronouns. I don't really care, just be nice and we'll be cool.
[[QEMU]] can emulate the '''PowerPC''' architecture. It is able to emulate several machines which can each run a handful of operating systems, which will be documented below.
I like doing thing with computers, networks and more. You might have figured out by now that I'm obsessed with IPv6.
==Platforms==
The following machines can be emulated. To see a full list type <code>qemu-system-ppc --M help</code>.
Every now and then you might spot me editing or creating a page.
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! Model
! Name
! Notes
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| 40p
| IBM RS/6000 7020 (40p) (1990)
| Can run some versions of AIX
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| bamboo
| bamboo board
| First PowerPC machine emulated by QEMU
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| g3beige
| Heathrow based PowerMAC (1997)
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| mac99
| Mac99 based PowerMAC (1999)
| Can run Mac OS 9.2 - 10.5 and some Linux distros
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| mpc8544ds
| Mpc8544ds dev board
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| none
| Empty machine
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| pegasos2
| Genesi/bPlan Pegasos II
| Can run AmigaOS 4.1 and some other Amiga-like OSes
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| ppce500
| Generic paravirt e500 platform
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| ref405ep
| ref405ep
| Needs a file named ppc405_rom.bin which does not seem to be available anymore
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| sam460ex
| aCube Sam460ex
| Can run AmigaOS 4.1 FE and some others
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| virtex-ml507
| Xilinx Virtex ML507 reference design
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=== Pages I've created ===
==Machines==
===IBM RS/6000 7020 (40p)===
[[File:40p.jpg|thumb|250px]]
Workstation from ~1994. QEMU emulates the following peripherals for this machine:
* [[Installing IPv6 on older Windows versions]]
*PCI bridge
*PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
*2 IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
*Floppy disk
*PCnet network adapters
*Serial port
*PREP Non Volatile RAM
*PC compatible keyboard and mouse.
To start a very simple emulation that'll boot into OpenBIOS:
<pre>qemu-system-ppc -M 40p -boot c</pre>
====Current OS compatibility sheet====
{| class="wikitable"
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! Operating system
! Status
! Notes
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| AIX 3.2
| Not working
| OS hangs indefinitely
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| AIX 4.3
| Working
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| AIX 5.1
| Working
| The PCnet driver does not work in this OS; seems to be a bug <br>with the emulation
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| Windows NT 3.51 SP5
| Not working
| Incompatible with OpenBIOS
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| Windows NT 4.0 RTM
| Not working
| Incompatible with OpenBIOS
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====Guest installation instructions====
=====AIX 4.3=====
To boot AIX you need a custom BIOS with serial as the console. Fortunately Artyom Tarasenko has done the hard work for us and made a BIOS that works with QEMU. Download it using wget or similar:
<pre>wget https://github.com/artyom-tarasenko/openfirmware/releases/download/40p-20190413/q40pofw-serial.rom</pre>
Then create the hard disk image:
<pre>qemu-img create -f qcow2 aix.qcow2 8G</pre>
You can download the AIX 4.3.3 CDs from WinWorldPC: https://winworldpc.com/product/aix/43x
Finally, boot QEMU with the following arguments:
<pre>qemu-system-ppc -M 40p -bios q40pofw-serial.rom -serial telnet::4441,server -hda aix.qcow2 -vga none -nographic -net none -cdrom Volume_1.iso</pre>
If you have a physical CD, you can replace <code>-cdrom Volume_1.iso</code> with <code>-cdrom /dev/sr0</code>.
Telnet into port 4441 and begin the installation.
=====AIX 5.1=====
Mostly the same as 4.3. Again, you need to download a custom BIOS with serial as the console. The link for that is in the above section.
Create the hard disk image:
<pre>qemu-img create -f qcow2 aix.qcow2 8G</pre>
You can download AIX 5.1 CDs from WinWorld (you only need the first 3 CDs): https://winworldpc.com/product/aix/51
Boot QEMU with these arguments:
<pre>qemu-system-ppc -M 40p -bios q40pofw-serial.rom -serial telnet::4441,server -hda aix.qcow2 -nic user -vga none -nographic -cdrom AIX_CD_1.iso</pre>
If you have a physical CD, you can replace <code>-cdrom Volume_1.iso</code> with <code>-cdrom /dev/sr0</code>.
Telnet into port 4441 and begin the installation.
===Bamboo===
PPC440 embedded board, was initially used for KVM on the PPC440 (which has since been removed.) You can boot a Linux kernel on this board by downloading [http://landley.net/aboriginal/downloads/binaries/system-image-powerpc-440fp.tar.gz this image] (you may have to right click and hit "Save Link"), extracting it, and booting QEMU with this:
<pre>qemu-system-ppc -kernel linux -initrd rootfs.cpio.gz -M bamboo -netdev user,id=u1 -device rtl8139,netdev=u1 -vga none -nographic</pre>
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