Mac OS 9 crashes in qemu

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Britannica
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Mac OS 9 crashes in qemu

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Everything seems fine with openbios, but as soon as the screen turns grey, it just quits.
I looked at the stderr file. It reads:

"Trying to write invalid spr 0 (0x000) at 00f110b4
Trying to read invalid spr 0 (0x000) at 00f110bc
qemu-system-ppc.exe: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0x12181020
This usually means one of the following happened:

(1) You told QEMU to execute a kernel for the wrong machine type, and it crashed on startup (eg trying to run a raspberry pi kernel on a versatilepb QEMU machine)
(2) You didn't give QEMU a kernel or BIOS filename at all, and QEMU executed a ROM full of no-op instructions until it fell off the end
(3) Your guest kernel has a bug and crashed by jumping off into nowhere

This is almost always one of the first two, so check your command line and that you are using the right type of kernel for this machine.
If you think option (3) is likely then you can try debugging your guest with the -d debug options; in particular -d guest_errors will cause the log to include a dump of the guest register state at this point.

Execution cannot continue; stopping here."

System version: Mac OS 9.0 (not 9.0.4)
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Re: Mac OS 9 crashes in qemu

Post by Cat_7 »

Hi,

Qemu will not run anything below 9.04, and even then it needs later versions of 9.04 for e.g., the G4 cube.

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