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To: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, freebsd-powerpc@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD-ppc/ppc64 on emulators?
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If you use emulators/qemu-devel (i.e. a non-ancient version of QEMU), it 
should just work out of the box for ppc64.
-Nathan

On 07/22/14 16:12, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hi all,
>      I tried getting FreeBSD-ppc/-ppc64 to run on qemu recently with
> the 9/10/11 release media and I ran into boot issues (or probably user
> error in booting up qemu with the images) -- the image would hang
> right around mountroot.
>      I was wondering if anyone has a working recipe for how I would
> start up qemu with powerpc, or if there was an alternative piece of
> software available for emulating powerpc that could be used in general
> purpose automation?
> Thank you :)!
> -Garrett
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