I am trying to run a virtual PPC64 system via QEMU on a Debian/Unstable AMD64 host. I have already got a s390x VM going (ssh root@s390x.coker.com.au password "SELINUX"). qemu-system-ppc64 -drive format=raw,file=/vmstore/ppc64,if=virtio -nographic - m 1024 -kernel /boot/ppc64/vmlinux-4.19.0-9-powerpc64le -initrd /boot/ppc64/ initrd.img-4.19.0-9-powerpc64le -curses -append "root=/dev/vda ro" Above is the minimal qemu command that I'm using. Below is the result, it stops after the "4." from "4.19.0-9". Copyright (c) 2004, 2017 IBM Corporation All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the BSD License available at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php Booting from memory... Linux ppc64le #1 SMP Debian 4. The kernel is from the package linux-image-4.19.0-9-powerpc64le which is a dependency of the package linux-image-ppc64el in Debian/Buster. The program qemu-system-ppc64 is from version 5.0-5 of the qemu-system-ppc package. Any suggestions on what I should try next? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/