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The problem is not just the checks in the boot process; it is also the boot process itself. Pretty much all POWER-based operating systems (the BSDs, Linux, AIX, but also e.g. Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X) use Open Firmware to bootstrap their kernels, which IBM i doesn't use.

You can easily observe this yourself; if you have a recent POWER systems machine you can change between AIX/Linux and IBM i in ASMI (or the HMC) to IPL an LPAR, and you won't be able to IPL AIX/Linux on a partition set to IBM i. You also won't get to the OF prompt when IPL'ing in IBM i mode (which you do in AIX/Linux mode), and also don't see any OF-related messages. Instead, you see the early bootstrap SRCs until control is passed on to IBM i, after which it goes silent.

If you compare modern IBM i with the older versions of OS/400, you'll find that the boot process is fairly similar. If I'm not mistaken there used to be a few RedBooks around for Advanced Diagnostics that describe it in greater detail.

TL;DR, you won't even IPL an I_BASE media on all public emulators; the firmware images available simply don't know what to do with IBM i media. If I'd have to make an educated guess, the internal IBM emulator would have a different firmware image and a bunch of IFDEFs to exclude modules that emulate IBM i-specific hardware from public builds - it's how I would do it.

This all happens before the checks Jim here mentions.


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The short answer is no. There are checks for hardware in the boot process that would not allow it to load.

IBM can does emulate IBM i internally in various ways but that's only for development and internal testing.

I highly doubt IBM will replicate the ability to emulate IBM i the way it did with DOS and VM on the mainframes (yes there was a DOS for mainframes) since many of those customers bought Intel boxes to run it on. Turned out to be a huge problem in the end for those customers and IBM. (they were also kinda funny looking to see huge bus/tag cables to support printers/tape units to this larger than average floor standing PC, a double wide if you
will)



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Subject: RE: OS/400 on mambo emulator

Just to add some background to the question...
IBM has released a public version of mambo power emulator for x86 3 years
ago:
https://developer.ibm.com/linuxonpower/2017/04/06/new-open-source-tool-power
-functional-simulator-installer/
However, the package is bundled with the Linux image.
So, I wonder if it would be possible to run the i5/OS images on it somehow?
I.e. do something similar to what z-guys are doing with Hercules.

Cheers,
Vlad.

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Subject: OS/400 on mambo emulator

Hi,
Has anyone tried running os/400 on mambo? Is it even technically possible?

Cheers,
Vlad.


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