I've been recently trying to get 10.5 running on QEMU, but to no avail - QEMU doesn't detect or recognize any virtual drives I throw at it. Disk utility says "Select a disk, volume or image" with most of the options grayed out. I've already tried different virtual drive formats, different orders of .iso and .img files but still no success. What could be causing such problems? My qemu.bat file is :
After a thorough look at the guide I realized "-M mac99,via=pmu ^" was missing from my qemu.bat file. I added it back, however, the issue still persists. Are there any other arguments I overlooked?
The disk is sometimes not directly recognised when you move from disk utility to the installer.
Did you try a reboot from the dvd after initialising the hard disk?
After that, you can try to start the installer directly.
The disk is sometimes not directly recognised when you move from disk utility to the installer.
Did you try a reboot from the dvd after initialising the hard disk?
After that, you can try to start the installer directly.
Best,
Cat_7
Hello,
Now that I've got enough time to mess with QEMU again, I discovered something weird - while I didn't try rebooting from the DVD, QEMU detected the virtual drive after setting RAM from 1024 to 512 MB. I suppose the issue is now resolved, but Mac OS X's "time estimated" is bothering me - whooping 48-56 hours. I don't have that much time to leave my computer running for 2 days straight, so I will probably stick to classic Mac OS.
Thanks for all the help, Cat_7. Hopefully, this thread can help anyone suffering from the same issue.