xemu/docs/system/target-s390x.rst
Thomas Huth 70c04a7ca2 docs/system/s390x: Add a chapter about s390x boot devices
Booting on s390x is a little bit different compared to other architectures.
Let's add some information for people who are not yet used to this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200806150507.12073-1-thuth@redhat.com>
[CH: minor wording tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
2020-08-27 12:37:03 +02:00

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.. _s390x-System-emulator:
s390x System emulator
---------------------
QEMU can emulate z/Architecture (in particular, 64 bit) s390x systems
via the ``qemu-system-s390x`` binary. Only one machine type,
``s390-ccw-virtio``, is supported (with versioning for compatibility
handling).
When using KVM as accelerator, QEMU can emulate CPUs up to the generation
of the host. When using the default cpu model with TCG as accelerator,
QEMU will emulate a subset of z13 cpu features that should be enough to run
distributions built for the z13.
Device support
==============
QEMU will not emulate most of the traditional devices found under LPAR or
z/VM; virtio devices (especially using virtio-ccw) make up the bulk of
the available devices. Passthrough of host devices via vfio-pci, vfio-ccw,
or vfio-ap is also available.
.. toctree::
s390x/vfio-ap
s390x/css
s390x/3270
s390x/vfio-ccw
Architectural features
======================
.. toctree::
s390x/bootdevices
s390x/protvirt