any pointers on how to qemu-system-ppc a powerpc kernel on 11.10?

[Robert P. J. Day]

Quoting Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>:

> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 08:25:18AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>> Using this, I've been able to debug problems with Ubuntu powerpc images
>> like this (obviously -cpu and -M details will be board-specific):
>>
>>   qemu-system-ppc -cpu G4 -M mac99 -bios   
>> /usr/share/openbios/openbios-ppc -cdrom .iso -hda foo.img -boot   
>> order=d
>
> Incidentally, I had cause to do this again myself recently, and while it
> works fine on 11.10, something is broken in 12.04 and I just get a blank
> screen in the emulator.  I'm running it in an 11.10 chroot for now.

   argh. that is all.

rday