At least as of a couple years ago, the only way to use local disks with standard 512-byte or 4096-byte sector sizes was through VIOS or similar* storage virtualization mechanisms, so unless QEMU supports 520- or (4096+mumble)-byte virtual SAS disks, you also need to emulate enough of the IBM POWER hypervisor architecture to support running VIOS (IBM's AIX-derived virtual I/O appliance) concurrently in a separate logical partition within the same QEMU VM.Įven if QEMU does support odd-sized virtual sectors, given the integral support for logical partitioning included within modern IBM i releases, various system management and RAS features, etc., I'd be entirely unsurprised to learn that significant firmware support isn't also required to boot the OS at all, regardless of I/O device support. ![]() IBM i tends to be picky about disks, as well.
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