AIX VM for Test/Dev
Tutorials
- AIX on qemu-system-ppc64
- Run AIX 7.2 on x86 with QEMU – Kwakou SysAdmin
- Qemu模拟器运行AIX 7.2 系统 - 运维小菜鸟 - 博客园 (cnblogs.com)
- Run your AIX VM on x86 using KVM and QEMU (ibm.com)
- qemu7模拟安装aix72,详细过程,附带镜像_aix 7.2版本qcow2格式镜像下载-CSDN博客
- 遷移現有 AIX 7.2 系統至 QEMU VM
- AIX 7.2 虚拟机安装 - 杰哥的{运维,编程,调板子}小笔记 (jia.je)
- AIX for System Administrators: DEVOPS - QEMU (aix4admins.blogspot.com)
- YT: AIX 7.2 installation in QEMU - YouTube
- YT: Install AIX on QEMU using virsh and virt-manager tools - YouTube
- YT: Updates on Install AIX and run PowerHA using virsh and virt-manager - YouTube
QEMU commands
PowerPC System Board-specific
qemu-system-ppc64 --machine help
Install AIX from CD-ROM
Create a VM
mkdir aix72VM
cd aix72VM
qemu-img create -f qcow2 hdisk0.qcow2 20G
aix_7200-04-00-1937_1of2_112019.iso
cd aix72VM
mv aix_7200-04-00-1937_1of2_112019.iso AIX72.iso
Boot from cd-rom
cd aix72VM
qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER8 \
-machine pseries -m 4096 -serial stdio \
-drive file=hdisk0.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0 \
-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi \
-device scsi-hd,drive=drive-virtio-disk0 \
-cdrom $PWD/AIX72.iso \
-prom-env "boot-command=boot cdrom:" \
-prom-env "input-device=/vdevice/vty@71000000" \
-prom-env "output-device=/vdevice/vty@71000000"
Type 1 and press Enter
Press Enter
Type 2
Type 4
Type 5
Type 0
Press Enter to install AIX
看到這畫面時,表示 AIX 作業系統已經完成安裝。
輸入 Ctrl + C 離開
Fix boot issue
Boot from cd-rom
cd aix72VM
qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER8 \
-machine pseries -m 4096 -serial stdio \
-drive file=hdisk0.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0 \
-device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi \
-device scsi-hd,drive=drive-virtio-disk0 \
-cdrom $PWD/AIX72.iso \
-prom-env "boot-command=boot cdrom:" \
-prom-env "input-device=/vdevice/vty@71000000" \
-prom-env "output-device=/vdevice/vty@71000000"
Type 1 and press Enter
Press Enter
Type 3
Type 0
Type 1
Type 1
輸入修復開機指令
Fix boot issue