E-Maculation

Thanks; I didn't think to try the 8 bit driver since I was getting a panic, but I now recall the reason we built that version... yeah; it should work. I'll check it out tonight.

I think I used 16 bits for that, actually. Try using that as well and see if both OS X and OS 8 work.

16 bit did the trick! Both 8.6 and Server are quite happy with it.

Hello, is it possible to boot and install MacOS 8.6 in qemu-ppc now?

No, not natively. However, as said earlier, you can get 8.6 running via Blue Box (though it is very slow) when you install Mac OS X Server 1.2v3.

Meow2004 wrote:I'm confused on when you install DP2, you need to partition the hard drive. What do you need to do? Do you need to install 9.2, then install from there?

I posted a script to pre-partition a disk image for OS X Server/DP2, but it's buried in the thread somewhere. With this, you can boot straight to the OS X installer and skip the OS 8/9 steps. Permalink: https://gist.github.com/steventroughton ... 0cfa9e5936

Btw awesome to see that OS X Server now responds to keyboard & mouse! :D

Now include in our guide for OSX hosts. Thanks,

Cat_7

@adespoton, can you send me your QEMU folder that you use for Server 1.2v3? You don't need to include any disk images/toast files as I have those already, I can only get it working in Windows, but never OS X, and it would be great to try this out.

EDIT: Don't worry got it working now on OS X with latest build.

Thanks! But one more question, do i run the script through cmd? put it in my qemu command line? or run it in the openbios?

It's a shell script for Linux; if I have some spare time, I may make it OS X friendly and put a Platypus wrapper around it so it presents as a runnable application with prompts for disk size.

Linux uses pdisk much like we use diskutil on OS X. Of course, you can probably install pdisk with brew on OS X as well.

The script posted by Steven is for Mac OS X in fact. I used it a year ago to make disk partitioning for Server installation. Somehow pdisk was and is present in my system. I think it belongs to BSD subsystem as it exists in, say, NetBSD, too.
As for Meow, he uses Windows, as I recollect, so the only option for him is using the script in virtual Mac OS X.

We could upload an image, freshly formatted on Mac OS X with this script, for windows users.

You'd zip it, then it would be very quick to download because of how compressed it can go.

I have pdisk too on os x.

Weird; I somehow missed pdisk existing on the BSD subsystem

The disk images compress to almost nothing with lzma compression, so maybe we should just create a set of them and add them to the QEMU build zips hosted here.

Announcing another Qemu milestone: the PMU is ready for prime time!
(should I find a job in advertising?)

Find the OSX build here: http://www.open.ou.nl/hsp/downloads3/Qe ... 062018.zip
Find the Windows build here: http://www.open.ou.nl/hsp/downloads3/Wi ... 062018.zip

And be sure to read the post for OSX here:
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=8848&p=52102#p52102

And for Windows here:
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=9028

The downloads include both qemu-system-ppc and qemu-system-ppc64 builds.
Other news is that these builds now allow installing various Linux PPC versions as well.

Happy testing and please report on your findings.

Best,
Cat_7

Thanks! I like how you can choose USB or ADB now to avoid the glitches we were experiencing in previous builds.

Two new OSX builds are available in the experimental OSX builds section:

One containing a fix for the cuda adb so the mouse will work again in 9.0 with -m mac99
One containing an up-to-date screamer-based build.

As always: do not mix both builds, as e.g., the bios file is specific for the screamer build.

Find the builds here:
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=8848#p52104

Best,
Cat_7

Two new Windows builds are available in the experimental builds section:

One containing a fix for the cuda adb so the mouse will work again in 9.0 with -m mac99
One containing an up-to-date screamer-based build.

As always: do not mix both builds, as e.g., the bios file is specific for the screamer build.

Find the builds here:

viewtopic.php?f=34&t=9028&p=53788#p53788

Best,
Cat_7

Hi all,

Qemu 3.0.0 is out as successor to Qemu 2.12

Here are some new builds:
Windows: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=9028
OSX: viewtopic.php?f=34&t=8848

Best,
Cat_7

Ah; so it's basically 2.13 as far as PPC goes, still missing screamer integration?

I would say there is no mayor change that would justify that version jump. I believe it was more a feeling that now was as good a time as any. So I suspect some irrationality there, and perhaps that was the fear for 13?

As the screamer goes, there are still too many issues with it. Only yesterday I was running the latest screamer code with OSX 10.0 and the moment I clicked the Sound preference Qemu went into an "invalid key" loop....

Best,
Cat_7

Do the IX3D, ATI or nVidia extensions available with 9.2.2 do anything noteworthy in QEMU or can they be deactivated without consequence? I'm not certain how QEMU handles virtualized video; I have an ATI Radeon HD 4870 in my real machine, but I doubt that OS 9 would know how to do anything productive with it even if it had access to it.

Hi,

Currently, they do nothing. Qemu running Mac OS doesn't know how to pass trough video to your card. There is some work being done to get it to pass video through, but I haven't seen activity on that front for some time now.

Best,
Cat_7

Even it knew how, I doubt the ATI driver in Mac OS 9 can support cards past the ATI Radeon R200. The progress I saw there largely amounted to setting which type of video card the driver would detect upon booting.

Maybe not so related, but wouldn't be better if QEMU would emulate a "generic card" and the QEMU part that deals with the video would be passed directly to the host video card? Just like with the ATI extensions, but a bit more generic, so that every one with a potent graphic card can get advantage of it

As far as PCI passthrough, I was able to get a Geforce card working with IBM SLOF on the p-series machines in Qemu. However Openbios lacks some of the .words needed, I've been hoping someone with more programing knowledge would help in implementing the needed @config .words for Openbios.

I did test a PCI Firewire card, in a PCI-E to PCI adapter and that worked great in both OS 9 and OS X in Qemu. Tho my host system refused to boot with a PCI Radeon 9200, so I was unable to test that with Qemu.

Until we add the needed .words to Openbios, the only video option other than Qemu-VGA would be a Voodoo2 PCI 3D card. I'm still trying to find one at a reasonable price for testing, unfortunately the price on them keeps going up.

If anyone has one they'd like to donate, or sell cheaply, that would help the cause.