[Clfs-support] QEMU and testing the book

[William Harrington]

On Jul 27, 2012, at 15:35 PM, William Harrington wrote:

> Howdy everybody,
>
> In the past I've had actual hardware to build the different CLFS  
> books: PPC, PPC64, SPARC64, x86, x86_64, MIPS64  and I don't have  
> PPC64, SPARC64, and mips64 machine is too slow.
>
> I am checking out qemu and I notice the sparc64 isn't completely  
> ready to use.
>
> Do any of the subscribers here use qemu to build any of the MIPS or  
> PPC books?
>
> I did get a malta kernel and debian squeeze qcow2 image and I had  
> it boot once, but it likes to crash when bringing up the eth0  
> interface. Also I'm using this on my super fast machine in windows  
> 7 hehe.  May load a linux distro on it and try qemu from there.
>
> Any successful kernel and image configurations and command line  
> options for mips or ppc/ppc64 ?
> By the way I'm using the latest 20111119 qemu w32 port.
>
> Sincerely
>
> William Harrington

I seem to reply to myself a lot around here. I setup debian with  
binfmt-support and qemu static and I was building with the git book  
of ppc with some good results. I think qemu static is the way to go  
for what I want to do for testing the book.  Of course test suites  
will go out the window cause of the emulated environment, so I won't  
be able to get accurate results that way.

Sincerely,

William Harrington