Looks good to me. Boots without backtrace. qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm -cpu POWER8 -m 4G -M pseries -nographic -vga none -kernel /tmp/vmlinux qemu-system-ppc64 --version QEMU emulator version 2.5.0 (Debian 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.20) Tested-by: Daniel Black <daniel at linux.vnet.ibm.com>