On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> J�r�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
| $ 

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