Comments on: Installing AIX on Qemu! https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/22/installing-aix-on-qemu/ Fun with Virtualization Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:32:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/22/installing-aix-on-qemu/comment-page-1/#comment-336437 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:32:32 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9373#comment-336437 In reply to Aix.

aix433_qemu is still online, as is the qemu source.

]]> By: Aix https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/22/installing-aix-on-qemu/comment-page-1/#comment-336405 Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:12:54 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9373#comment-336405 In reply to neozeed.

Uploads taken down 🙁

]]> By: Zaki Jaaskelainen https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/22/installing-aix-on-qemu/comment-page-1/#comment-332708 Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:49:40 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9373#comment-332708 In reply to neozeed.

AIX 7.2 is supported under KVM with the support for Nutanix servers IBM added to this version. I have used with no major problems in a QEMU VM on top of Fedora 35 to 38.. Virtual SCSI with multipathing will also work well but support for multiple CPU cores seems to be unstable.
Here is the command line for launching a Power8 VM running AIX 7.2 TL5 SP3 with 8GB RAM, 3 dual-pathed virtual SCSI disks. I used two of these VMs for playing with GPFS where the two VMs shared the second and third disks. The option needs to be modified for the first boot from virtual DVD for installing AIX:
qemu-system-ppc64 -machine pseries -cpu power8 -m 8192 -serial stdio \
-device spapr-vscsi,id=scsi0 \
-device scsi-hd,drive=drive0,bus=scsi0.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0,serial=0000000000000000 \
-drive file=/home/aix1/rootvg.img,if=none,cache=none,format=raw,file.locking=off,id=drive0 \
-device spapr-vscsi,id=scsi1 \
-device scsi-hd,drive=drive1,bus=scsi1.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0,serial=0000000000000000 \
-drive file=/home/aix1/rootvg.img,if=none,cache=none,format=raw,file.locking=off,id=drive1 \
-device spapr-vscsi,id=scsi2 \
-device scsi-hd,drive=drive2,bus=scsi2.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0,serial=0000000000000001 \
-drive file.filename=/home/aix1/datavg.img,file.locking=off,format=raw,if=none,cache=none,id=drive2 \
-device scsi-hd,drive=drive3,bus=scsi2.0,channel=0,scsi-id=1,lun=0,serial=0000000000000002 \
-drive file.filename=/home/aix1/caa.img,file.locking=off,format=raw,if=none,cache=none,id=drive3 \
-device spapr-vscsi,id=scsi3 \
-device scsi-hd,drive=drive4,bus=scsi3.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0,serial=0000000000000001 \
-drive file.filename=/home/aix1/datavg.img,file.locking=off,format=raw,if=none,cache=none,id=drive4 \
-device scsi-hd,drive=drive5,bus=scsi3.0,channel=0,scsi-id=1,lun=0,serial=0000000000000002 \
-drive file.filename=/home/aix1/caa.img,file.locking=off,format=raw,if=none,cache=none,id=drive5 \
-device spapr-vscsi,id=scsi4 \
-device scsi-cd,drive=drive6,bus=scsi4.0,channel=0,scsi-id=0,lun=0 \
-drive file.filename=/home/aix1/AIX_v7.2_Install_7200-05-03-2148_flash__122021_LCD8236412.iso,format=raw,if=none,cache=none,id=drive6 \
-device spapr-vlan,netdev=ent0,mac=aa:e8:f1:1b:01:18 \
-netdev tap,ifname=tap0,id=ent0 \
-nographic \
-monitor tcp::9020,server,nowait \
-prom-env “boot-command=boot disk:”

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/22/installing-aix-on-qemu/comment-page-1/#comment-332705 Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:48:47 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9373#comment-332705 In reply to Curious.

you’d need to investigate the later versions of AIX that are 64bit, along with the hardware, the configs, and all the lockouts IBM has in place to prevent you from emulating a 64bit RS/6000.

I’ve seen someone do it, but it was heavily modified.

]]> By: Curious https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/22/installing-aix-on-qemu/comment-page-1/#comment-332704 Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:38:18 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9373#comment-332704 Team is there anyway to get this uplifter to 4GB of RAM?

]]> By: ayman https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/22/installing-aix-on-qemu/comment-page-1/#comment-327598 Wed, 12 Apr 2023 11:02:00 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9373#comment-327598 Hey ,
please were can i downlowd fichier ISO d’aix

]]> By: Mekenis https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/22/installing-aix-on-qemu/comment-page-1/#comment-313519 Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:40:35 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9373#comment-313519 I just downloaded the boot ROM for the RS/6000 7020 40p plus the patch files to upgrade it. I wonder if it will work with QEMU. The READE says;

The boot rom for the IBM RS/6000 40p workstation, dumped and identical to the images on the floppies.
As a bonus, the exe files are the original IBM firmware updates/SMS disks with different boot ROM revisions. 702040p.exe has the password of “**RS/6000**”.

]]> By: serak https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/22/installing-aix-on-qemu/comment-page-1/#comment-303457 Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:10:21 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9373#comment-303457 In reply to neozeed.

does it now qemu 7 has been released

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/22/installing-aix-on-qemu/comment-page-1/#comment-280593 Fri, 13 Aug 2021 04:31:59 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9373#comment-280593 In reply to wzis.

In the discord one guy has managed to install 7. Part of the problem is the storage back end doesn’t work right, so he rigged up something to use iSCSI. There was some other mod about removing errors, I forget but it can be done.

]]> By: wzis https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/04/22/installing-aix-on-qemu/comment-page-1/#comment-280583 Fri, 13 Aug 2021 03:58:41 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9373#comment-280583 In reply to neozeed.

Did anyone successfully run an AIX6.1 on Qemu？I’m very interested in that or run an AIX5.3 64bit on Qemu.

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