IA64 Emulation using Bochs or QEMU

[Pwned]

Is there any instructions how to do this (well on a x86 or AMD64 as a host)? Kenneth said there is qemu-system-ia64, but it is only accessable from compiled KVM, regular QEMU just won't work as I understand. Googling just takes me to bugreports.

[orsg]

rather than asking "how to do this" you should better be asking "is it possible at all"?
to my knowledge, there is no Itanic emulator available, that is capable of booting a whole OS. NetBSD/IA64 is not getting anywhere, because of the lack of emulator and because (nearly) nobody has the hardware

[Daniel]

I've seen some early ia64 whistler build running in bochs some time ago...

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/screenshot/whistler.jpg

It's build 2462..

[hounsell]

I've seen some early ia64 whistler build running in bochs some time ago...

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/screenshot/whistler.jpg

It's build 2462..

That shows Bochs running on IA64 Whistler rather than IA64 Whistler running in Bochs...

[Daniel]

Arghh you are absolutely right >.<

[nickenzi]

I found this while looking for virtualization software that can run on Windows IA64... Maybe this will help.
http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?t=73

Offtopic Comment

Does anyone know of any virtualization software that can run on Windows IA64 and emulate IA32 or AMD64?

[orsg]

Offtopic Comment

Does anyone know of any virtualization software that can run on Windows IA64 and emulate IA32 or AMD64?

virtualization will not help here, because it (per definition) cannot bridge the difference in CPU architecture, you need full emulation here, which will be awefully slow Windows includes some capability to tun x86 programs on Itanic, but other than that, I suspect Bochs is your only hope. QEMU does some form of dynamic recompilation, which makes it 1) faster than bochs and 2) more dependent upon the platforms it is running on, and as ia64 support does obviously not look so good, I guess you won't be able to use QEMU there.

[Pwned]

Yes, I read an article about virtual machine software. I need Bochs or QEMU running on x86/AMD64 emulating IA64. Not vice versa. I don't have any IA64 CPU.

[nickenzi]

My bad. I thought there was an option in there to compile in support for IA64 emulation.

[louisw3]

SKI is the only one I'm aware of...

http://ski.sourceforge.net/

but it's not full system, so... no windows/hpux/vms/linux/irix etc..

[dukzcry]

Virtutech Simics is capable of emulating something near to HP's i2000 system. Virtutech also provides some custom GNU/Linux distro with it.
There is also an effort to bring full IA64 target machine emulation to QEMU, in limits of Prashant's Mercurysquad project.