i found probably another issue, i cant made the img boot if i run qemu 2.10 build on an X86_64 (endianess?).
tested on qemu 2.10 on MacOsx 10.12 and on Ubuntu Mate 17.04 (amd64) this issue is present if i choose -hda instead -device file= too [ 8.564326] ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [ 8.569373] ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x80) [ 8.575744] ata6: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps [ 14.195086] ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) [ 14.200326] ata6.00: failed to IDENTIFY (INIT_DEV_PARAMS failed, err_mask=0x80) [ 19.828186] ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)[ 19.867419] VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 [ 19.872611] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the availa [ 19.967119] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) Luigi Oggetto: [Qemu-ppc] e5500 pcce500 disabled network and no video on device virtio-gpu or virtio gpu-pci Hi all, like the topic i cant made the machine goes online plus the video output don work. on this email i made the links with kernel 411 with virtio,bochs etc etc . a base of distro with kernel modules my usual lines configuration. Note i tested all on real e5500 machine and all is working there. Hope my job will help in fixing and developing ubuntu base : https://www.dropbox.com/s/yzp657yad3cp48n/Amigaone_Ubuntu_16.04-Base-1.img.gz?dl=0 Kernel 411:https://www.dropbox.com/s/ne49j5bo62680l0/u411.gz?dl=0 qemu line config: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j5kekeut75ogs9r/qemu_config.gz?dl=0 Thanks Luigi