>> Hi all, >> >> I've been experiencing issues when installing Mac OS 9.x using >> qemu-system-ppc.exe in Windows 10. After booting from CD image, >> partitioning a fresh disk image often hangs Qemu. When using a >> pre-partitioned disk image, the OS installation process halts >> somewhere during the process. The issues can be resolved by setting >> qemu-system-ppc.exe to run in Windows 7 compatibility mode. >> AFAIK all Qemu builds for Windows since Mac OS 9 became available as >> guest are affected. >> The issue is reproducible by installing Qemu for Windows from Stephan >> Weil on Windows 10 and boot/install Mac OS 9.x >> >> Best regards and thanks for looking into this, >> Howard > > > I assume there was some kind of behavior change for some of the Windows API > between Windows 7 and Windows 10, that is my guess as to why the > compatibility mode works. Could you run 'make check' on your system, once in > Windows 7 and once in Windows 10. Maybe the tests will tell us something. > I'm hoping that one of the tests succeeds in Windows 7 and fails in Windows > 10. That would help us pinpoint what the problem is. > > What I mean by run in Windows 7 is set the mingw environment to run in > Windows 7 compatibility mode (if possible). If you have Windows 7 on another > partition you could boot from, that would be better. > > Good luck. > > p.s. use 'make check -k' to allow all the tests to run (even if one or more > of the tests fails).
Hi, Thank you for you suggestion, but I have no means to run the check you suggest. I cross-compile from Linux. Best regards, Howard
