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Subject: Re: 10.2 Unable 2 install on Power8 through IBM KVM
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Video consoles don't work reliably in PowerKVM at the moment. Could you 
try disabling it (-nographic -vga none) to QEMU and using the serial 
console instead?
-Nathan

On 09/05/15 01:39, Luciano Mannucci (by way of Luciano Mannucci 
<luciano@vespaperitivo.it>) wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 10:24:27 -0700
> Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> FreeBSD-HEAD. ie, freebsd-11. I think there are powerpc64 snapshots of
>> freebsd-head that you can try booting as a guest VM.
> Yes there are some.
> I've tried 20150818, 20150826 and 20150903.
> All of them gave me moreless the same result that can be seen at URL
> http://www.vespaperitivo.it/Try-one.png (I havent figured out how to
> grab the text from qemu guest coonsole)
>
> Do you think it's woth have a go with all the previous snapshots?
>
> Many thanks again,
>
> Luciano.