device: 0.249 semantic: 0.171 graphic: 0.115 PID: 0.083 other: 0.074 vnc: 0.060 files: 0.045 performance: 0.040 network: 0.034 boot: 0.034 permissions: 0.032 socket: 0.030 debug: 0.027 KVM: 0.006 debug: 0.434 device: 0.097 boot: 0.096 PID: 0.080 other: 0.065 files: 0.064 semantic: 0.040 permissions: 0.040 performance: 0.023 graphic: 0.015 socket: 0.015 KVM: 0.012 vnc: 0.011 network: 0.008 hw/ppc: Aborted (core dumped) Reproducable: $ ./ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 -S -machine ppce500,accel=tcg -device spapr-pci-host-bridge qemu/hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c:1567:spapr_phb_realize: Object 0x55bda99744a0 is not an instance of type spapr-machine Aborted (core dumped) This is addressed by commit: "f7d6bfc spapr_pci: fail gracefully with non-pseries machine types" $ ./v2.11.0-1421-g7d84845/bin/qemu-system-ppc64 -S -machine ppce500,accel=tcg -device spapr-pci-host-bridge qemu-system-ppc64: -device spapr-pci-host-bridge: spapr-pci-host-bridge needs a pseries machine $ git tag --contains f7d6bfc v2.11.0 1- https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=f7d6bfcdc0fe49040aac3ac131a319cb5427957e As noted in the previous comment, this bug was fixed in the 2.11 release.