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Running PPC64 (Big Endian) Linux on the Apple M1
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There are multiple ways to run qemu on the M1
Reliable sources are from the project UTM https://github.com/utmapp/UTM
I have used just their patched qemu
There are also reports that homebrew is shipping native ARM64 qemu builds now
although I don't have experience with homebrew on M1
PPC64 Linux runs nicely on the M1 via qemu-system-ppc64
We will need the following
A mature PPC64 Linux distribution -> I chose OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Please note that I have chosen NET installed ISO - this will need internet connection during setup
as it will pull most of the packages directly from the repo - if you do not wish to do this, chose
another full ISO (there are DVDs there)
https://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/tumbleweed/iso/
Save and rename tumbleweed.iso and put into PPC64 working directory.
Qcow2 disk image
qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk.img 20G
And the launcher script
/usr/local/bin/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 tumbleweed.iso \
-net nic -net user
The setup takes some time so be patient :)
Enjoy PPC64 Linux on your M1
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