device: 0.176 socket: 0.134 files: 0.099 semantic: 0.094 graphic: 0.083 PID: 0.075 vnc: 0.064 other: 0.062 debug: 0.049 performance: 0.043 permissions: 0.041 network: 0.037 boot: 0.032 KVM: 0.011 debug: 0.608 device: 0.108 files: 0.057 socket: 0.054 PID: 0.042 other: 0.030 performance: 0.023 semantic: 0.014 network: 0.014 graphic: 0.012 KVM: 0.011 vnc: 0.010 boot: 0.009 permissions: 0.009 qemu crashes with Assertion `fdctrl->dma' failed Re-production steps: git clone today's qemu git tree (4th Oct 2017) ./configure --target-list=ppc64-softmmu && make -j 8 Run the device-crash-test from scripts folder, seeing the following error INFO: running test case: machine=powernv binary=ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 device=isa-fdc accel=tcg WARNING: qemu received signal -6: ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 -chardev socket,id=mon,path=/var/tmp/qemu-30972-monitor.sock -mon chardev=mon,mode=control -display none -vga none -S -machine powernv,accel=tcg -device isa-fdc CRITICAL: failed: machine=powernv binary=ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 device=isa-fdc accel=tcg CRITICAL: cmdline: ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 -S -machine powernv,accel=tcg -device isa-fdc CRITICAL: log: qemu-system-ppc64: hw/block/fdc.c:2703: isabus_fdc_realize: Assertion `fdctrl->dma' failed. CRITICAL: exit code: -6 Fixed here: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=b3da551389c86ce214