Comment 32 for bug 1563887

The PowerVM machine I've been using for these tests has the following output:

ubuntu@alpine01:~/kvm$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep platform
platform : pSeries

The PowerNV server has the following output:

ubuntu@binacle:~$ cat /etc/issue; uname -a ; ppc64_cpu --smt ; cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep platform
Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch) \n \l

Linux binacle 4.4.0-17-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 29 17:15:31 UTC 2016 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux
SMT is off
platform : PowerNV

ubuntu@binacle:~$ sudo qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm -m 256 -display none -nographic -net nic -net user,net=10.0.0.0/8,host=10.0.0.1,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 -machine pseries -drive file=xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img,if=virtio -drive file=seed.iso,if=virtio
WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'seed.iso' 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 = Jan 29 2016 18:58:37
 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
          8200000000000000 CD-ROM : "QEMU QEMU CD-ROM 2.5+"
Populating /pci@800000020000000
                     00 1800 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ]
                     00 1000 (D) : 1af4 1001 virtio [ block ]
                     00 0800 (D) : 106b 003f serial bus [ usb-ohci ]
                     00 0000 (D) : 1234 1111 qemu vga
No NVRAM common partition, re-initializing...
Installing QEMU fb

Scanning USB
  OHCI: initializing
    USB Keyboard
    USB mouse
No console specified using screen & keyboard

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Trying to load: from: /pci@800000020000000/scsi@3 ...
E3404: Not a bootable device!
Trying to load: from: /pci@800000020000000/scsi@2 ... Successfully loaded
Linux ppc64le
#32-Ubuntu SMP T