Re: [qemu-s390x] network on linux qemu

[Paulo Matos]

On 27/04/18 11:58, Thomas Huth wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
> those debian kernel and initrd are the ones that are used for installing
> Debian - they do not provide a fully installed environment with gcc etc.
> So you first need to create a hard disk image (with qemu-img for
> example) and then install the distro into that image.
> 
> In case you'd like to try Fedora instead, I've got some instructions for
> this here:
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/~thuth/blog/qemu/2017/12/19/install-fedora.html
> 
> You just have to make sure to use the latest version 2.12 of QEMU (older
> versions won't work) and then omit the "-M accel=kvm" when running
> qemu-system-s390x.
> 

That works perfectly, thanks.

But I must ask out of curiosity, what would "-M accel=kvm" do and why
did I need to omit it?

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Paulo Matos