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+currently known working on PowerKVM:
+
+$ { echo '#!/bin/sh'; echo 'echo HELLO WORLD'; } > user-data
+$ cloud-localds seed.img user-data
+
+## usb=off is required
+## -net nic and -drive get default (ibmveth and ibmvscsi) drivers
+$ qemu-system-ppc64 -machine pseries,accel=kvm,usb=off -m 1G \
+   -name foo -M pseries \
+   -device spapr-vscsi \
+   -net nic -net user \
+   -display none -nographic \
+   -drive file=disk1.img \
+   -kernel "$1" ${2:+-initrd "$2"} \
+   -append "root=/dev/sda console=hvc0"
+
+Also known working is adding 'blank.img' as a '-drive'.
+
+
+What is not working is virtio.  I have not successfully gotten virtio network
+or virtio disk working.