It looks like a firmware issue. Please report this to openb...@openbios.org. You get the output below by using the -nographic option.
>> ============================================================= >> OpenBIOS 1.0 [Aug 17 2010 14:41] >> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2 >> CPUs: 1 >> Memory: 512M >> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 >> CPU type PowerPC,750 Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Aug 17 2010 14:41 Trying cd:,\\:tbxi... Consoles: Open Firmware console FreeBSD/powerpc Open Firmware loader, Revision 0.1 (r...@xserve.lan.xcllnt.net, Sun Jul 18 04:50:11 UTC 2010) Memory: 524288KB Booted from: cd Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel data=0x72c6b8+0x3e280 syms=[0x4+0x5ac10+0x4+0x7d8ad] / Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... Kernel entry at 0x100100 ... panic: OFW translations above 32-bit boundary! Uptime: 1s -- PPC emulation loops on booting a FreeBSD kernel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/623852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: New Bug description: Has anyone tried booting FreeBSD8.1-ppc under QEMU (Linux x86_64 host; PPC guest)? I can get Linux/PPC to run fine, and FreeBSD8.1-i386 as well; but there seems to be a problem with whatever the FreeBSD8.1 kernel does, that QEMU's PPC emulation can't handle. I am using the latest version of QEMU from GIT as of 25/8/10. I don't know how to get a "git commit hash", so I can't quote it. The kernel starts OK then loops after "Kernel entry at 0x100100 ...". The command I am running is qemu-system-ppc -cdrom FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-powerpc-disc1.iso -hda freebsd8.1-ppc -m 94 -boot d" I obtained the kernel from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/powerpc/ISO-IMAGES/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-powerpc-disc1.iso.
