(This is a guest post by Antoni Sawicki aka Tenox)

AIX on QEMU is nothing new. Neozeed ran AIX 4.3.3 years ago on Artyom Tarasenko’s QEMU 40p fork — but it was serial console only, no graphics, and the emulated CPU pinned your host at 100%. Recently I did AIX 3.2.5 and AIX 4.1.5 with a local graphics console. Now we have the rest of the line!

Behold! AIX 4.3.3 all the way to 7.1, every one booting to a graphical CDE login on the emulated framebuffer. AIX 7.2 is only serial console.

The older releases (4.3.3, 5.1) run on the emulated RS/6000 7020-40P, the newer ones (5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2) on an emulated pSeries. And no more burning 100% CPU, we have full IDLE detection.

All images are ready to run and portable, with QEMU binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows. Just unpack and run. Grab whichever you fancy:

• AIX 4.3.3: aix433rs6k-qemu.tar.lz
• AIX 5.1: aix51rs6k-qemu.tar.lz
• AIX 5.3: aix53pseries-qemu.tar.lz
• AIX 6.1: aix61pseries-qemu.tar.lz
• AIX 7.1: aix71pseries-qemu.tar.lz
• AIX 7.2: aix72pseries-qemu.tar.lz

Have Fun with Virtualization!