No, I don't think that these old AIX versions ever worked in QEMU. You might be more or less lucky with later versions, though, see e.g.:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1829682 Anyway, when reporting bugs, please always provide the command line that you used to start QEMU, otherwise bugs are hardly reproducible. ** Changed in: qemu Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1853083 Title: qemu ppc64 4.0 boot AIX5.1 hung Status in QEMU: Incomplete Bug description: When boot AIX5.1 from cdrom device, qemu hung there, no further info is displayed and cpu consumption is high. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1853083/+subscriptions
