Hi, I've just tried with current xenial: $ dpkg-query --show | egrep "(qemu|virtinst|libvirt|linux-image)" ipxe-qemu 1.0.0+git-20150424.a25a16d-1ubuntu1 libvirt-bin 1.3.1-1ubuntu6 libvirt0:ppc64el 1.3.1-1ubuntu6 linux-image-4.4.0-17-generic 4.4.0-17.33 linux-image-extra-4.4.0-17-generic 4.4.0-17.33 linux-image-generic 4.4.0.17.18 python-libvirt 1.3.1-1ubuntu1 qemu-block-extra:ppc64el 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu6 qemu-slof 20151103+dfsg-1ubuntu1 qemu-system-common 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu6 qemu-system-ppc 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu6 qemu-utils 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu6 virtinst 1:1.3.2-3ubuntu1
then mkdir virt-images cd virt-images wget http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/current/xenial-server-ppc64el.iso virt-install --name=Ubuntu.16.04 --ram 2048 --cdrom ~/virt-images/xenial-server-ppc64el.iso --disk path=$HOME/virt-images/ubuntu.16.04.qcow2,bus=virtio,size=25,format=qcow2,cache=none --bridge=virbr0,model=virtio-net --machine pseries Seems to work fine. I suspect your issue is that you have smt on. please try: sudo ppc64_cpu --smt=off and then possibly re-starting libvirt. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1545687 Title: Unable to launch a guest using libvirt on PowerNV Ubuntu Host To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/1545687/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
