Re: Suggestions for running Mac OS 9.0.1 on debian-x86-64
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> J�me Warnier wrote:
> > Just install Mac OS 9 directly under your qemu VM.
>
> Really? Doesn't qemu only emulate PC hardware (except for the cpu)? For linux
> that shouldn't matter as you could presumably compile the PC hardware drivers
> into a ppc kernel, but for MacOS that would be an issue, I thought.
>
> http://www.thefreecountry.com/emulators/macintosh.shtml
> "When emulating a PC (x86), supported guest operating systems include MSDOS,
> FreeDOS, Windows 3.11, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Linux, SkyOS, ReactOS,
> NetBSD, Minix, etc. When emulating a PowerPC, currently tested guest OSes
> include Debian Linux."
>
> $ qemu -M \?
> Supported machines are:
> pc Standard PC (default)
> isapc ISA-only PC
>
> In any case, I actually tried like this:
>
> /usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc -boot d -snapshot -m 512 -hda
> '/home/chris/qemu/lombi-hda10.img' -net nic,vlan=0 -localtime &
> Warning: vlan 0 is not connected to host network
> qemu: warning: could not load VGA bios '/usr/share/qemu/video.x'
>
> this eats 100% cpu now and nothing happens; where can I get the
> /usr/share/qemu/video.x from?
I didn't try running MacOS, but my (Ubuntu's) qemu has:
| $ qemu-system-ppc -M ?
| Supported machines are:
| g3bw Heathrow based PowerMAC (default)
| mac99 Mac99 based PowerMAC
| prep PowerPC PREP platform
| ref405ep ref405ep
| taihu taihu
| $ qemu-system-ppc64 -M ?
| Supported machines are:
| g3bw Heathrow based PowerMAC (default)
| mac99 Mac99 based PowerMAC
| prep PowerPC PREP platform
| ref405ep ref405ep
| taihu taihu
| $
With kind regards,
Geert Uytterhoeven
Software Architect
Sony Techsoft Centre Europe
The Corporate Village · Da Vincilaan 7-D1 · B-1935 Zaventem · Belgium
Phone: +32 (0)2 700 8453
Fax: +32 (0)2 700 8622
E-mail: Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com
Internet: http://www.sony-europe.com/
A division of Sony Europe (Belgium) N.V.
VAT BE 0413.825.160 · RPR Brussels
Fortis 293-0376800-10 GEBA-BE-BB
Reply to: