Running OpenBMC in qemu

[Maxim Sloyko]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Robi Buranyi <rburanyi at google.com> wrote:
> why does it have to be qemuarm exactly? You can equally run qemux86(-64),
> and shall see no difference in test results.

Well, I guess it does not *have* to be qemuarm, but last time I tried
it, it worked, that's why I was running qemuarm. I was also under the
impression that we are trying to support it.

If it's broken beyond repair though, it's fine by me.

>
> so what has been working for me all the time [and still works with a
> relatively recent gbmc checkout]
> - build for machine qeumux86-64
> - and run a console-only mode: runqemu qemux86-64 ext4
> qemuparams="-nographic"
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Maxim Sloyko <maxims at google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I've ran into troubles when I was trying to run OpenBMC image in qemu.
>> It has been a while since I've done this, so I'm wondering if I'm
>> missing something.
>>
>> I build it with:
>>
>> export TEMPLATECONF=meta-phosphor/conf
>> source openbmc-env
>> MACHINE=qemuarm bitbase obmc-phosphor-image
>>
>> With v1.0-stable openbmc/openbmc branch I get this output:
>> http://pastebin.ca/3798183
>>
>> With the most recent version (master), I get very similar output,
>> except that the error is now:
>>
>> VNC server running on ::1:5900
>> vpb_sic_write: Bad register offset 0x2c
>>
>>
>> In both cases the terminal I run this from basically just hangs.
>>
>> Am I missing something here?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Maxim Sloyko
>
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