You’ve probably found an endless supply of URLs where people complain that they can’t get anything to boot with qemu-system-ppc and many supposed guides to follow that work. It’s almost impossible to find functional examples of how to run qemu-system-ppc without a kernel panic, core dump, or ending up in bios limbo. So here’s one way I came up with that works for me.

Wow, there are a crap load of dependencies to build qpid, the AMQP client/server libraries for C++! What do you mean my architecture isn’t supported? Bah, whatever… Add ppc to the list or rip it out for now. Just build it and stop complaining!

In a shell script you’re probably testing a variable against some constant or another variable, but why not run a command in a subshell and compare the output?  You could even compare the output of two subshell commands!  I guess most of the time i’m doing something like this i’m …