This gives you a list of mounted drives, identify the CD-ROM, prob ide1-cd0 You need shut it down, change the boot flag to point towards the HDD instead of CD, then “swap” cd images like this: After the first disk completes installing, the guest will try to restart but boot from the CD again. Has a USB tablet pointing device -device usb-tablet (this helps smooth out the mouse pointer capture, making so it doesn’t get caught on the edges of the host window/screen)Īdd this to the list when mounting an image containing software/during installation:įor OS X, I waited hours and hours working off two install CD images. Has a VGA graphics card with 64 MB vram -device VGA,edid=on,vgamem_mb=64,xres=1280,yres=720ĭisplay res 720p 32-bit color -g 1280x720x32īoot from HD image -boot c (swap for -boot d when booting from install media) USB-friendly Mac with G4 processor -M mac99,via=pmu -cpu g4 QEMU PowerPC translation with acceleration, required bios: qemu-system-ppc -accel tcg -L pc-bios Qemu-system-ppc -accel tcg -L pc-bios -M mac99,via=pmu -cpu g4 -m 1024 -hda diskx.img -device VGA,edid=on,vgamem_mb=64,xres=1280,yres=720 -g 1280x720x32 -boot c -device usb-tablet ![]() The OS 9 install went extremely quickly thanks to an image called OS9Lives, which is set up to directly clone a known working disk with staple apps already installed to your bootable disk image.įor booting the OS X guest, I found the following works best: Installers are readily available out there gestures but I won’t link here just in case there are legal issues. ![]() Neither guest OS has working sound, but there’s some effort on the part of the community to fix this with the qemu-screamer fork but I figured I should try whatever QEMU version was native to arm64 before trying this one that seems to be focused on x86 Windows and Mac. Networking is configured automatically! I was able to browse using frogfind, which strips away elements from sites and loads a text-only version friendly to retro computers/defunct browsers. There’s some info in the emaculation forum about installing a usb-tablet extension, but that didn’t work for me and instead leaves the cursor immobile. ![]() Mac OS 9 does not respond well to the Reform trackball, and that makes using it a terrible experience. The guest thinks it’s a 900 MHz PPC G4, but I’ve never used a G4 that felt this slow before! I don’t think there’s a way to allocate more CPU resources, but I could be wrong. In OS X, Activity Monitor shows the virtual processor basically fully utilized, while on the host, I barely get 115% CPU utilization for the QEMU process. I’ve played around with some of the optional commands that I thought would help out but I’m unsure they’re doing anything (see below for my recommended config). Performance is very slow in either OS 9 or OS X.
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