Who would not wish to run the best operating system on earth on his pity Intel Laptop ? I will describe here what I have done with the help of others and share some of my findings and recommendations how to get this going.
For this exercise Im using Linux Mint 19 x86_64 and current qemu compiled from source which you can get from here https://github.com/qemu/qemu
One should get the similar output from the compilation
$ git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git $ cd gemu $ mkdir build $ cd build $ ../configure $ make $ su # make install # exit $ qemu-system-ppc64 --version QEMU emulator version 3.0.50 (v3.0.0-614-g19b599f766-dirty) Copyright (c) 2003-2017 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
So once we have qemu installed we can then move on to get an actual AIX ISO, which I cannot obviously share, but I will link some already made documentation how to get it done if you already have a Power environment with AIX on
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/cgaix/resource/AIX_QEMU_blog.pdf?lang=en_us
Next I will share my tun-tap scripts as well as the installer loader and normal loader scripts for the AIX
Here is my standard Linux networking script that I use for various VMs and simulators (VirtualBox, Alphavm-free, simh, hercules )
#Setup tap and bridge tunctl -t tap0 -u user ifconfig tap0 up brctl addbr br0 brctl addif br0 enp0s25 vboxnet0 brctl setfd br0 0 ifconfig enp0s25 10.0.2.1 up ifconfig br0 10.0.2.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.2.255 up brctl addif br0 tap0 vboxnet0 ifconfig tap0 0.0.0.0 sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 iptables -A FORWARD --in-interface enp0s25 -j ACCEPT iptables --table nat -A POSTROUTING --out-interface wlp9s0 -j MASQUERADE
Please change accordingly to your need, enp0s25 is eth0, wlp9s0 is wlan0 that is internet connected.
Here is a slightly modified /etc/qemu-ifup
#! /bin/sh
# Script to bring a network (tap) device for qemu up.
# The idea is to add the tap device to the same bridge
# as we have default routing to.
# in order to be able to find brctl
PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin
ip=$(which ip)
if [ -n "$ip" ]; then
ip link set "$1" up
else
brctl=$(which brctl)
if [ ! "$ip" -o ! "$brctl" ]; then
echo "W: $0: not doing any bridge processing: neither ip nor brctl utility not found" >&2
exit 0
fi
ifconfig "$1" 0.0.0.0 up
fi
switch=$(ip route ls |
awk '/^default / {
for(i=0;i<NF;i++) { if ($i == "dev") { print $(i+1); next; } }
}'
)
switch=br0
# only add the interface to default-route bridge if we
# have such interface (with default route) and if that
# interface is actually a bridge.
# It is possible to have several default routes too
for br in $switch; do
if [ -d /sys/class/net/$br/bridge/. ]; then
if [ -n "$ip" ]; then
ip link set "$1" master "$br"
else
brctl addif $br "$1"
fi
exit # exit with status of the previous command
fi
done
echo "W: $0: no bridge for guest interface found" >&2
Next is my AIX 7.2 TL3SP1 installation loader script
qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER8 -machine pseries -m 2048 -serial stdio -drive file=disk.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0 -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi -device scsi-hd,drive=drive-virtio-disk0 -cdrom aix.iso -prom-env "boot-command=dev / 0 0 s\" ibm,aix-diagnostics\" property boot cdrom:\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe -s verbose" -net nic -net tap -display vnc=:1
And here is the simulation loader script
qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER8 -machine pseries -m 2048 -serial stdio -drive file=disk.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0 -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi -device scsi-hd,drive=drive-virtio-disk0 -cdrom aix.iso -prom-env boot-command='boot disk: ' -net nic -net tap -display vnc=:1
My disk.img is a standard qcow2 compressed image format (100 G)
Once the system is installed ( please use this reference https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/cgaix/resource/AIX_QEMU_blog.pdf?lang=en_us )
Be patient once it all loads (takes approx 5 minutes on my Panasonic CF-53 ToughBook with Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz
Following are my additional steps that I have done after loggin in the first time after install (the /etc/motd is my own custom one)
AIX 7.2 networking
# ifconfig en0 10.0.2.10 up # route add 0 10.0.2.2 # chdev -l inet0 -a hostname=asterix
Add following to # echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf
To make it persistent created a scritp in /etc/network.sh
#!/bin/ksh echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf ifconfig en0 10.0.2.10 up route add 0 10.0.2.2
And made it executable of course
# chmod +x /etc/network.sh
Then added last entry to /etc/inittab so next time we boot, network works
customnet:2:once:/etc/network.sh 2>&1
Test the above, reboot the machine by issuing halt command an re-loading it.
Important thing to notice here – do not use the -serial stdio interface in your terminal for normal work. CTRL-C will kill the qemu simulation and thats something you don’t want. So setup sshd instead (I have allowed remote root user for simplicitys sake here) and connect to your guest AIX via ssh from the Linux host !
Connect to the AIX guest (you can then make as many ssh sessions as needed, once AIX guest is booted its quite fast to use taking into consideration all Power8 instructions are simulated by qemu)
Here are the details about the guest AIX
AIX Version 7 Copyright IBM Corporation, 1982, 2018. Console login: root root's Password: Welcome to AIX 7.2 running via Qemu-system-ppc64 in X86_64 ------------------------------------------------------------- Last unsuccessful login: Sat Nov 3 13:04:35 CET 2018 on /dev/vty0 from localhost Last login: Sun Nov 4 20:12:27 CET 2018 on /dev/pts/1 from 10.0.2.2 [root@asterix ~]# prtconf System Model: IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) Machine Serial Number: Not Available Processor Type: PowerPC_POWER8 Processor Implementation Mode: POWER 8 Processor Version: PV_8_Compat Number Of Processors: 1 Processor Clock Speed: 1000 MHz CPU Type: 64-bit Kernel Type: 64-bit LPAR Info: 0 aix_on_kvm Memory Size: 2048 MB Good Memory Size: 2048 MB Platform Firmware level: Not Available Firmware Version: SLOF,aik Console Login: enable Auto Restart: true Full Core: false NX Crypto Acceleration: Not Capable Network Information Host Name: asterix IP Address: Sub Netmask: Gateway: 10.0.2.2 Name Server: Domain Name: Paging Space Information Total Paging Space: 512MB Percent Used: 1% Volume Groups Information ============================================================================== Active VGs ============================================================================== rootvg: PV_NAME PV STATE TOTAL PPs FREE PPs FREE DISTRIBUTION hdisk0 active 799 649 159..122..48..160..160 ============================================================================== INSTALLED RESOURCE LIST The following resources are installed on the machine. +/- = Added or deleted from Resource List. * = Diagnostic support not available. Model Architecture: chrp Model Implementation: Uni-Processor, PCI bus + sys0 System Object + sysplanar0 System Planar * vio0 Virtual I/O Bus * vscsi0 Virtual SCSI Client Adapter * cd0 Virtual SCSI Optical Served by VIO Server * ent0 Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan) * vsa0 LPAR Virtual Serial Adapter * vty0 Asynchronous Terminal * pci0 PCI Bus * scsi0 qemu_virtio-scsi-pci:0000:00:02.0 Virtio SCSI Client Adapter (f41a0800) * hdisk0 qemu_virtio-scsi-pci:0000:00:02.0-LW_0 MPIO Other Virtio SCSI Disk Drive + L2cache0 L2 Cache + mem0 Memory + proc0 Processor
Configure YUM
Please read the documentation here about how to setup the environment
https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/ezinstall/ppc/README-yum
Since we have no tools yet installed I will use my Linux Host machine to download all the needed RPMs and then copy them to AIX guest via scp
// On the Linux Host machine $ mkdir AIX $ cd AIX $ wget https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/ezinstall/ppc/yum_bundle.tar
// On the AIX guest # mkdir /tmp/RPM # cd /tmp/RPM # scp user@10.0.2.2:/home/user/AIX/yum_bundle.tar . # tar -xv yum_bundle.tar
Install RPMs on the AIX guest
# cd /tmp/RPM # rpm -ivh ca-certificates-2016.10.7-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm # rpm -ivh curl-7.52.1-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm # rpm -ivh db-4.8.24-3.aix6.1.ppc.rpm # rpm -ivh gdbm-1.8.3-5.aix5.2.ppc.rpm # rpm -ivh gettext-0.19.7-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm # rpm -ivh glib2-2.14.6-2.aix5.2.ppc.rpm # rpm -ivh readline-6.1-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm # rpm -ivh sqlite-3.15.2-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm # rpm -ivh python-2.7.10-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm # rpm -ivh python-devel-2.7.10-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm # rpm -ivh python-iniparse-0.4-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh python-pycurl-7.19.3-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm # rpm -ivh python-tools-2.7.10-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm # rpm -ivh python-urlgrabber-3.10.1-1.aix6.1.noarch.rpm # rpm -ivh pysqlite-1.1.7-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm # rpm -ivh yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm # rpm -ivh yum-3.4.3-5.aix6.1.noarch.rpm
Now YUM is ready to install some tools
# yum install tcsh # yum install gcc
If there are problems with RPM db afterwards, simply rebuild it
# rpm --rebuilddb
I do not know how to work in Korn shell (default) too much so I have installed tcsh
# yum install tcsh
And setup the environment to use it /etc/passwd entry for root
root:!:0:0::/home/root:/usr/bin/tcsh
And then configure tcsh prompt for the root user
# cd /home/root # cat .cshrc set prompt = '[%n@%m %c]# '
PKGSRC Q3-2018 test
Next I have tested pkgsrc build, please make sure you read the following https://wiki.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/how_to_use_pkgsrc_on_aix/
# ftp ftp.netbsd.org 230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. ftp> pas Passive mode on. ftp> bin 200 Type set to I. ftp> cd /pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2018Q3 ftp> get pkgsrc.tar.gz # mv pkgsrc.tar.gz /tmp # cd /tmp # gunzip pkgsrc.tar.gz # tar -xvf pkgsrc.tar # setenv CC /opt/freeware/bin/gcc # cd pkgsrc/bootsrap # ./bootstrap
After bootstrap make sure we declare the following variables in TCSH
# setenv CC /opt/freeware/bin/gcc # setenv USE_NATIVE_GCC yes
Then we can build pkgsrc packages as follows
# /usr/pkg/bin/bmake install clean
P.S
What does not work
- Bash (bash_64 cpu 95%)
- Wget – core dump
- Ruby (cpu 95%)
- ps (core dump) – using topas instead
- vmstat – using topas instead
Video presentation is located here