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 ===== Boot AIX on x86 using QEMU using diag CDROM ===== ===== Boot AIX on x86 using QEMU using diag CDROM =====
  
-Step 1: Download the AIX 7.2 Standalone Diagnostics disk from IBM .https://www-304.ibm.com/webapp/set2/​sas/​f/​diags/download/home.html\\ You want CD72220.ISO.+Step 1: Download the AIX 7.2 Standalone Diagnostics disk from IBM \\ 
 +https://​www.ibm.com/​support/pages/standalone-diagnostics-cd-overview-and-download\\ 
 + You want CD73220.iso
  
 Step 2: (optional) If you want the Diagnostics disk to give you an AIX shell prompt instead of running diagnostics,​ apply this patch to your ISO file: Step 2: (optional) If you want the Diagnostics disk to give you an AIX shell prompt instead of running diagnostics,​ apply this patch to your ISO file:
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 My disk.img (or aix-hdd.qcow2) is a standard qcow2 compressed image format (100 G) My disk.img (or aix-hdd.qcow2) is a standard qcow2 compressed image format (100 G)
   qemu-img create -f qcow2 aix-hdd.qcow2 100G   qemu-img create -f qcow2 aix-hdd.qcow2 100G
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 +==== Test 08/2024 =====
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 +
 +Format the disk in thin provisionning
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 +root@manu-Latitude-5480:/​home/​manu/​Downloads#​ qemu-img create -f qcow2 aix73.qcow2 50G
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 +root@manu/​home/​manu/​Downloads#​ qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER9 -machine pseries -m 2048 -serial stdio \
 +-drive file=aix73.qcow2,​if=none,​id=drive-virtio-disk0 \
 +-device virtio-scsi-pci,​id=scsi -device scsi-hd,​drive=drive-virtio-disk0 \
 +-cdrom cd_diag73220.iso \
 +-netdev tap,id=n1 -device virtio-net,​netdev=n1 ​ \
 +-prom-env boot-command='​boot disk: -s verbose'​
  
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