Fedora ppc64 install fails on qemu-system-ppc64

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Does anyone have a working recipe for installing Fedora on
qemu-system-ppc64 (host is x86-64)?  I've been trying it for about a
day now, and just keep hitting bugs.

I can get the Fedora 19 netinst and DVD to boot fine using upstream
qemu from git and the following command:

./ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 \
  -cpu POWER7 \
  -M pseries \
  -m 4096 \
  -hda /dev/fedora/f20ppc64 \
  -cdrom /tmp/Fedora-19-ppc64-DVD.iso \
  -netdev user,id=usernet,net=169.254.0.0/16 \
  -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=usernet

However X11 cannot render anything:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1002030
What graphics device does qemu emulate?  Are there alternatives
I could try?

Using a text-mode non-LVM Anaconda install proceeds a little further,
although is still buggy:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1001792
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=966289#c37

Finally it fails with "script error with package [some package name]":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1002077

And that's as far as I've got.

Rich.

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