$ sudo kvm -M pseries,cap-sbbc=workaround,cap-cfpc=workaround -smp 4 -m 8192 -serial mon:stdio -enable-kvm -vga none -nographic bionic-image1.img
WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'bionic-image1.img' and probing guessed raw. Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
SLOF **********************************************************************
QEMU Starting
Build Date = Dec 21 2017 00:39:26
FW Version = buildd@ release 20151103
Press "s" to enter Open Firmware.
Populating /vdevice methods
Populating /vdevice/vty@71000000
Populating /vdevice/nvram@71000001
Populating /vdevice/l-lan@71000002
Populating /vdevice/v-scsi@71000003
SCSI: Looking for devices 8000000000000000 DISK : "QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 2.5+" 8200000000000000 CD-ROM : "QEMU QEMU CD-ROM 2.5+"
Populating /pci@800000020000000
No NVRAM common partition, re-initializing...
Scanning USB
Using default console: /vdevice/vty@71000000
Tested PPA with xenial based on the instruction in comment #18.
$ uname -a
Linux dryden 4.15.0-45-generic #48~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 29 18:03:36 UTC 2019 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
$ apt policy qemu-kvm 5ubuntu10. 35~test2 5ubuntu10. 35~test2 5ubuntu10. 35~test2 500 ppa.launchpad. net/ubuntu- security- proposed/ ppa/ubuntu xenial/main ppc64el Packages dpkg/status
qemu-kvm:
Installed: 1:2.5+dfsg-
Candidate: 1:2.5+dfsg-
Version table:
*** 1:2.5+dfsg-
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
$ sudo kvm -M pseries, cap-sbbc= workaround, cap-cfpc= workaround -smp 4 -m 8192 -serial mon:stdio -enable-kvm -vga none -nographic bionic-image1.img
Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'bionic-image1.img' and probing guessed raw.
Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
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QEMU Starting
Build Date = Dec 21 2017 00:39:26
FW Version = buildd@ release 20151103
Press "s" to enter Open Firmware.
Populating /vdevice methods vty@71000000 nvram@71000001 l-lan@71000002 v-scsi@ 71000003
800000000000 0000 DISK : "QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 2.5+"
820000000000 0000 CD-ROM : "QEMU QEMU CD-ROM 2.5+" 00000 vty@71000000
Populating /vdevice/
Populating /vdevice/
Populating /vdevice/
Populating /vdevice/
SCSI: Looking for devices
Populating /pci@8000000200
No NVRAM common partition, re-initializing...
Scanning USB
Using default console: /vdevice/
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