PowerPC emulation: Qemu, PearPC, or… ?

Question

I\'m currently trying to build a configuration to test some code on Big-Endian systems.

Through chats and research, i\'ve been convinced that a good target for these tes

Answer 1

There are some fairly recent Windows Binaries of QEMU available at this address :

http://lassauge.free.fr/qemu/

Furthermore, some Ready-to-download VM for various architectures, including PowerPC, have been prepared by Aurelien Jarno, and can be downloaded at this adress :

http://blog.aurel32.net/46

Answer 2

On Windows, the complete steps are-

1. Install Cygwin with all important libraries
2. Download qemu for Windows from - http://lassauge.free.fr/qemu/ and unzip it
3. Now download powerpc VM from http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/powerpc/ and put it inside qemu folder

4. Now open a cygwin terminal and go to the qemu folder inside the terminal, then type-

   ./qemu-system-ppc -L Bios powerpc_linux.qcow2 -net nic -net user -m 1024

Here only change the VM name powerpc_linux.qcow2 to the correct one.

Answer 3

Here is an easy way to start a powerpc virtual machine. https://github.com/nongiach/arm_now

$ sudo pip3 install arm_now
$ arm_now start powerpc64-e5500
Welcome to arm_now
buildroot login: root
# echo "it's done, our vm is started."
it's done, our vm is started.

More example of how to use it: https://github.com/nongiach/arm_now/wiki/5.3-Compile-and-play-2048-on-ARM,-MIPS-and-PowerPc64-within-a-minute