Re: MacOS emulation

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On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 20:24:25 -0500, Adam Russell wrote:

>> To sort of answer my own question, I found some discussion an it was
>> mentioned that QEMU is faster so it's likely what should be used. One
>> person mentioned using this with QEMU:
>> 
>> qemu-system-ppc \
>> -boot c \
>> -M mac99,via=pmu \
>> -m 512M \
>> -cpu G3 \
>> -prom-env 'auto-boot?=true' \
>> -prom-env 'vga-ndrv?=true' \
>> -drive file="macos_921_ppc.iso",\
>> format=raw,index=2,media=cdrom \
>> -drive file="MacOS_9.qcow2",\
>> format=qcow2,index=0,media=disk \
>> -name "Mac OS 9.2.1" \
>> -netdev user,id=mynet0 \
>> -device sungem,netdev=mynet0 \
>> -no-reboot
> 
> Did this end up working for you? Did you get MacOS9 running on qemu?

I haven't tried this yet, but figured it might be useful information for 
someone who beats me to it. My PPC system has some hardware support 
problems at the moment that prevent me from using X and a few other 
things.