How to launch Mac OS X Puma on Linux ?

[Sebiohazard]

Good evening everyone !

I'm on Linux Mint & I can't launch Qemu to emulate Mac OS X 10.1 Puma. I followed the instructions on the official page here

I entered this command:

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qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -boot d -M mac99 -m 512 -hda "/home/sebiohazard/HDD/MacOSX.img" -cdrom "/home/sebiohazard/OS/MacOSX.iso"

Qemu launches but freezes after this screen... I don't know what to do ?!



Greetings !

[adespoton]

What happens if you try:

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qemu-system-ppc -boot d -M mac99 -m 512 -cdrom "/home/sebiohazard/OS/MacOSX.iso" -hda "/home/sebiohazard/HDD/MacOSX.img"

[Sebiohazard]

Hello !

Yes I also think of reversing the HDD with the CDROM but same result it remains frozen...

[Cat_7]

Your command line works OK over here. Perhaps there is something wrong with the iso.
Please remove:

-hda "/home/sebiohazard/HDD/MacOSX.img"

from your command line and add these two arguments below and tell us what happens:

-prom-env "boot-args=-v" -serial stdio

Best,
Cat_7

[Sebiohazard]

Hello !

The ISO of Mac OS X Puma works I tried it on Windows & the installation went well.

I launched Qemu with the additional command:

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-prom-env "boot-args=-v" -serial stdio

Qemu launches with a different screen but then freezes...

Qemu's returns are as follows:

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WARNING: Image format was not specified for '/home/sebiohazard/HDD/MacOSX.img' and probing guessed raw.
         Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
         Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.

>> =============================================================
>> OpenBIOS 1.1 [Jan 17 2018 23:39]
>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 1
>> CPUs: 1
>> Memory: 512M
>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>> CPU type PowerPC,G4
milliseconds isn't unique.
>> switching to new context:

The Installer has unexpectedly quit. (error 1)

Greetings !

[Cat_7]

The qemu you seem to be using in Linux is rather old, judging by the openbios date of 2018.

How did you install it?

Best,
Cat_7

[Sebiohazard]

With the following command:

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sudo apt install qemu-kvm

Greetings !

[Cat_7]

I don't know what might be causing that. Perhaps compiling your own version of Qemu can help.

Best,
Cat_7

[Sebiohazard]

Thanks for your help I looked if there is a forum for Qemu but I found nothing...

[Sebiohazard]

Mac OS X emulation under Linux is very complicated I think...

[adespoton]

Did you try starting from https://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page ? There's good documentation there for Linux.

Once you've familiarized yourself with how to set up and run qemu 5.0.0, you can head on over to https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/PowerPC for specific documentation about qemu-ppc.

[Sebiohazard]

Did you try starting from https://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page ? There's good documentation there for Linux.

Hello yes of course I mentioned this link at the beginning of this post...

Greetings !

[Sebiohazard]

Hello !

I managed to install Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar strangely using the same command lines as for Mac OS X 10.1 Puma:

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qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -boot d -M mac99 -m 512 -hda "/home/sebiohazard/HDD/MacOSX.img" -cdrom "/home/sebiohazard/OS/MacOSX CD1.iso"

The installation requires a second CD so you have to restart Qemu but this time by booting on the HDD with this command:

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qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -boot c -M mac99 -m 512 -hda "/home/sebiohazard/HDD/MacOSX.img" -cdrom "/home/sebiohazard/OS/MacOSX CD2.iso"

In this article it is written that the installation of Mac OS X 10.0 & 10.1 is not possible... it is strange because under Windows I managed to install Puma ?!

Greetings !

[Sebiohazard]

Sorry I forgot to mention that the sound does not work with Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar...

[Cat_7]

Sound doesn't work with any versions you install through your package manager. The code to enable sound is not in the official qemu source.

The article you refer to is old and doesn't reflect the current state of affairs.

You might try -M g3beige in stead of -M mac99 to install 10.1

Best,
Cat_7

[Sebiohazard]

OK thank you I will try...

By cons I do not know how to get the latest version of Qemu on Linux ?

Greetings !

[win.exe]

To get the latest source code for qemu execute

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 git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git

You have to install build dependencies

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 sudo apt-get install git libglib2.0-dev libfdt-dev libpixman-1-dev zlib1g-dev

Then execute the following below

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cd qemu
./configure --target-list=ppc-softmmu #This will take a while don’t give up
make
cd ppc-softmmu

You new qemu-system-ppc should be here.

[mabam]

To get the latest source code for qemu execute

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 git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git

If you want the screamer build, compile it from this source:

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git clone -b screamer --single-branch git://github.com/mcayland/qemu.git

[Sebiohazard]

Hello thank you for your help!

Unfortunately I don't know how to compile Qemu Screamer... I found this link here I ran the command lines but it doesn't work...

Greetings !

[Sebiohazard]

Hello !

I found an old post that explains how to compile Qemu Screamer on Linux here. I managed to compile it but when I launch Qemu in the terminal it is the old version which starts...

How do I launch Qemu Screamer ?

Greetings !

[UbuntuXP]

Make sure you're in the QEMU Screamer source directory and run with:

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$ ./qemu-system-ppc $ARGS

[Sebiohazard]

Hello !

Yes yes I am in the right folder but it is always the version of Qemu installed that launches...

[UbuntuXP]

Are you prefixing the command with "./"? In case you didn't know, adding the "./" prefix to a command tells the shell (typically bash) to execute the program in the current directory.

[Sebiohazard]

Hello UbuntuXP !

Thank you for your help I am a happy man it finally works ! Installation of Mac OS X 10.1 Puma on Linux Mint with functional sound !

By story I have another question... the compilation of Qemu Screamer has created a lot of files & folders, I would like to save only those which are necessary for the functioning of Qemu ?!
How to know ?

Greetings !

[Cat_7]

From the source folder copy ppc-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc and the pc-bios folder into a new folder. Put you command file and other files, such as disks etc into the new folder. Edit your command file. See whether things work.

Then delete the source folder.

Best,
Cat_7