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[Ben Collins <bcollins@xxxxxxxxxx>]

G4 powerbook doesn't support KVM, so you wont get very far.

On Nov 4, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Roberto Innocenti <robyinno@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You write "While qemu has finally been built on powerpc in precise to enable a KVM enabled VM" 
> 
> but the kvm that I found in precise when I start it it remain in loop forever , if I have specify the bios it tell me that i couldn't load a PC BIOS
> 
> kvm -boot d -hda hd.qcow2 -cdrom  Scaricati/quantal-desktop-powerpc.iso -bios /usr/share/openbios/openbios-ppc
> qemu: could not load PC BIOS '/usr/share/openbios/openbios-ppc'
> 
> I have tested on a powerbook 12 inch G4 1.33 Ghz Nvidia GPU.
> 
> If I start my compiled qemu 1.2 
> -qemu-system-ppc -boot d -hda hd.qcow2 -cdrom  Scaricati/quantal-desktop-powerpc.iso -bios /usr/share/openbios/openbios-ppc
> 
> I could see the attached image with the openfirmware loader...
> I  don't know how continue on the boot process on my powerpc virtual machine.
> 
> I hope to have some suggestion from someone.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Roberto Innocenti
> 
> 
> 2012/11/4 Ben Collins <bcollins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Here's a summary of the sessions:
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> http://ben-collins.blogspot.com/2012/11/follow-up-power-architecture-related.html
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