On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 04:23:38PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: You are probably better off using PPC64 which is big-endian and much more widely tested in libvirt than MIPS, so actually likely to work reliably. It seems that patch you quote was never applied to libvirt. There was some debate in the thread that follows and it seems it was never resolved. Please do file a bug against libvirt so this doesn't get lost again. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :|

On Tue, 2017-03-14 at 09:18 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: You keep referring to ppc instead of ppc64, so I'm not sure you're trying exactly the same thing, but you can create a ppc64 guest with recent software quite easily by using virt-builder:   $ virt-builder \     fedora-25 \     --arch ppc64 \     --output f25-ppc64.qcow2 \     --format qcow2 \     --root-password password:dangerzone This is a minimal guest XML that will allow you to import the image generated above into libvirt:   <domain type='qemu'>     <name>f25-ppc64</name>     <memory unit='KiB'>2097152</memory>     <currentMemory unit='KiB'>2097152</currentMemory>     <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>     <os>       <type arch='ppc64' machine='pseries'>hvm</type>     </os>     <devices>       <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64</emulator>       <disk type='file' device='disk'>         <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>         <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/f25-ppc64.qcow2'/>         <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>         <address type='drive'/>       </disk>       <controller type='scsi' model='virtio-scsi'/>       <controller type='usb' model='nec-xhci'/>       <interface type='network'>         <source network='default'/>         <model type='virtio'/>       </interface>       <console type='pty'/>       <channel type='unix'>         <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>         <address type='virtio-serial'/>       </channel>       <memballoon model='virtio'/>     </devices>   </domain> I just tried the steps on my Fedora 24/x86_64 laptop and I didn't run into any issues: if the experience is not quite as seamless for you, I'd be interested in having the details. --  Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization