On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 09:49:03PM +0300, Jussi Lehtola wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 19:33 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > It's useful to be able to run Fedora on qemu-system-ppc, if only > > because it allows me to track down build problems that only affect the > > ppc builders. (Which in fact is what got me into this in the first > > place). > > btw, we don't currently have a howto: debug failing builds on esoteric > architectures. Is it as simple as running mock > $ mock -r fedora-11-ppc package.srpm > and testing the binaries with > $ qemu-system ./binary I'm pretty sure this won't work. mock would (via yum) try to install RPMs which had %post scripts that would need to run PPC binaries. Then the whole make/compiler would also be PPC binaries and so wouldn't run in mock. What I'm trying is to boot a Fedora PPC virtual machine, which I then log into and run mock (or rpmbuild or whatever) inside. - - - PPC64 is a complete mystery to me though. The errors I get from qemu seem to indicate that 'qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu ppc64' doesn't understand the 64 bit opcodes in the ppc64 kernel. But it claims to be emulating a PowerPC 970FX (which is a 64 bit processor, commonly known as the G5). Doesn't Fedora PPC64 have a 64 bit kernel and 32 bit userland? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
