Comment 3 for bug 1289898

I used the following way to start the VM:

#!/bin/bash
ifconfig -a|grep tap0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || qemu-ifup tap0

qemu-system-ppc64 -hda ppcrhel5.img -cpu POWER7 -machine type=pseries,usb=off -m 768 -nographic -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no
qemu-ifdown tap0