I'm not able to recreate this now $ dpkg-query --show linux-generic qemu-slof qemu-system-ppc linux-generic 3.16.0.22.23 qemu-slof 20131015+dfsg-1ubuntu1 qemu-system-ppc 2.1+dfsg-4ubuntu5
not sure why. but my basic same setup worked fine.
I'm not able to recreate this now dfsg-1ubuntu1
$ dpkg-query --show linux-generic qemu-slof qemu-system-ppc
linux-generic 3.16.0.22.23
qemu-slof 20131015+
qemu-system-ppc 2.1+dfsg-4ubuntu5
not sure why. but my basic same setup worked fine.