Looking at comment #7, it sounds like you're not interested in this ticket anymore, so I'm closing it as "Won't fix". Feel free to open it again if you are still interested in this.
** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1317603 Title: qemu-system-ppc does not terminate on VM exit Status in QEMU: Won't Fix Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: When a VM is created for a p4080-e500mc ; the VM can not be rebooted or terminated. The qemu-system-ppc process must be killed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: qemu-system-ppc 2.0.0~rc1+dfsg-0ubuntu3.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-powerpc-e500mc 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.9+ ppc ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: powerpc Date: Thu May 8 12:20:57 2014 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: qemu UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-29 (9 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1317603/+subscriptions