Comment 29 for bug 1765364

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
qemu-kvm:
  Installed: 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.35~test2
  Candidate: 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.35~test2
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.35~test2 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-security-proposed/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main ppc64el Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ 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

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