With -cpu 601 it's slow, but interesting: qemu-system-ppc -M 40p -bios p12h0456.img -hda aix-5.1-cd1.iso -cpu 601
^^^ -cpu 601 is crucial. With the default CPU (604) it just hangs after a greeting. And after 90 minutes, on the serial line.... AIX Version pinmore.c, s.@(#)65 1.1 Instruction Storage Interrupt - PROC [kdb_get_virtual_memory] no real storage @ 646E6D60 KDB(0)> f pvthread+000000 STACK: WARNING: bad IAR: 646E6D60, display stack from LR: 646E6D5D KDB(0)> KDB(0)> dr r0 : 00000000 r1 : 00595910 r2 : 00595C58 r3 : 00000001 r4 : 01C08180 r5 : 00000000 r6 : 00000000 r7 : 00000000 r8 : 00000000 r9 : 00000000 r10 : 00000000 r11 : 00000000 r12 : 646E6D61 r13 : 00606178 r14 : 000000B8 r15 : 00000020 r16 : 00000020 r17 : 0803004D r18 : 005AF0BC r19 : 003FED04 r20 : 00606178 r21 : 00000020 r22 : 00606000 r23 : 00003F50 r24 : 00003F48 r25 : 00003F3C r26 : 00000000 r27 : 63683A2C r28 : 00003A24 r29 : 00003A20 r30 : 00590C70 r31 : 00000000 KDB(0)> -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko SPARC and PPC PReP under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu