On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:43:49PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Running qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER8 (version 1:2.7+dfsg-3+b1) did not > fail for me using debian-testing-ppc64el-netinst.iso
Yes, indeed. I have no idea what the default is, but -cpu POWER8 solves the problem.