[H-GEN] PPC needed for some Fedora Core 5 testing.

[David Seikel]

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 11:26:04 -0500 (EST) Robert Brockway
<rbrockway at opentrend.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, David Seikel wrote:
> 
> > Otherwise I'll have to tunnel VNC over ssh to USA for some GUI
> > debugging.  Not looking forward to that.
> 
> Qemu could emulate a PPC for you on another platform (eg IA32).  It'd
> be fairly slow but when I've done this sort of thing it has been
> usable if the underlying box is fairly modern (eg P4).

I tried that with a couple of PPC based distros, I could never get it
to boot their ISO images.  I have nice collection of other distros
running under QEMU for exactly this sort of testing purpose.
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