Qemu package and guide for OSX available

[Cat_7]

Hi,

There is the oldworld -M g3beige machine, but it is also restricted to 2Gb of memory. And it will probably not run your guest OS.

Best,
Cat_7

[Ronald P. Regensburg]

The latest real Power Mac G4 and PowerBook G4 machines did not support more than 2.0 GB of memory. So no surprise if software running on an emulated G4 does not expect more than 2.0 GB. The limitation was probably added for good reasons.

[cafe-megabyte]

Thank you for your advice!
I'll wait updating until the M1 version is released.

[PeterD]

Hi

I am trying to install Qemu-system-ppc-macOS-6.2-rc3-01-12-2021.zip
I Use it with this guide: http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/ppc ... mu-for-osx
when I launch qemu-img in the terminal
I get
/users/XX/Qemu-6/./Libs/libglib-2.0.0.dylib: cannot load 'libglib-2.0.0.dylib' (load command 0x80000034 is unknown)
/Users/XX/Qemu-6/Libs/libglib-2.0.0.dylib: cannot load 'libglib-2.0.0.dylib' (load command 0x80000034 is unknown)
Trace/BPT trap: 5

What am I doing wrong?

I hope you can help me
Thanks in Advance

[PeterD]

When I try to install the 5.2 version Iget the following message

./qemu-img create -f raw -o size=2G MacOS9.2.img
dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _clock_gettime
Referenced from: /Users/peterdolle/Qemu-5/./qemu-img
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

dyld: Symbol not found: _clock_gettime
Referenced from: /Users/peterdolle/Qemu-5/./qemu-img
Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

Trace/BPT trap: 5

What am I doing wrong?
Osx El Capitan
Macbook pro mid 2010

[Cat_7]

Hi,

I guess you saw on which macOS versions the Qemu builds you can download here were created?
With your host running El Capitan you are restricted to the builds of 23-08-2019 or earlier. Qemu started using a function not available in your macOS version after that time.
There is not much we can do about that, it's Qemu policy to only support the last two macOS versions.

Best,
Cat_7

[adespoton]

Hi,

I guess you saw on which macOS versions the Qemu builds you can download here were created?
With your host running El Capitan you are restricted to the builds of 23-08-2019 or earlier. Qemu started using a function not available in your macOS version after that time.
There is not much we can do about that, it's Qemu policy to only support the last two macOS versions.

Best,
Cat_7

Some enterprising person did backport SDL QEMU-PPC avoiding the more recent functions, so it could run on 10.6-10.11. I can't recall who or where that fork is located though, and it's not up to date (it was done in early 2020).

[ThinkEd]

Hello,

I have been using the following build and found something strange with the networking.

10-12-2021
Qemu-system-ppc-macOS-6.2-rc4-screamer-60hz-fpu-vmnet

In Mac OS X 10.0 and 10.1 guests, I have been able to connect to my NAS using AFP and have a share mounted using the guest account. However, once I tried to transfer a file to the guest OS, the OS stopped responding for a while and the transfer would end in an error. The networking would not function properly anymore until a restart of the guest OS.

I have been using the default -netdev settings included in the download package.

Am I missing anything?

[Cat_7]

Hi,

Thanks for the report.
No, you are not missing anything, you are using an experimental build
The vmnet option is still under development and is not in the official qemu source code yet. Some quirks still have to be ironed out.
But we are getting there.

Best,
Cat_7

[jimjamyaha]

Hey, have built the latest stable and also master branches on Monterey 12.1.

The latest master version solves an issue I had with .qcow images not working with the latest release and also experimental releases.

What I can't find (and I tried searching the internet/this forum) is the patch code for the vmnet networking options. Understand it's not yet available on the github code.

Any pointers where it is and how integrate it into the build.

Thanks in advance.

[adespoton]

Hey, have built the latest stable and also master branches on Monterey 12.1.

The latest master version solves an issue I had with .qcow images not working with the latest release and also experimental releases.

What I can't find (and I tried searching the internet/this forum) is the patch code for the vmnet networking options. Understand it's not yet available on the github code.

Any pointers where it is and how integrate it into the build.

Thanks in advance.

Out of curiosity, which versions are you calling latest stable and master? So others later on know which you're referencing when they're no longer the latest.

[Cat_7]

You can find the latest version (15) of the patch series here:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/qe ... rains.com/

Download the series, cd into your qemu-master src folder and apply:
patch -p1 < /path-to-patch/Add-vmnet.framework-based-network-backend.patch

Best,
Cat_7

[jimjamyaha]

Hey, have built the latest stable and also master branches on Monterey 12.1.

The latest master version solves an issue I had with .qcow images not working with the latest release and also experimental releases.

What I can't find (and I tried searching the internet/this forum) is the patch code for the vmnet networking options. Understand it's not yet available on the github code.

Any pointers where it is and how integrate it into the build.

Thanks in advance.

Out of curiosity, which versions are you calling latest stable and master? So others later on know which you're referencing when they're no longer the latest.

Good point. 6.2.0 stable is the "latest stable" as of 2 March 2022.

The master branch was downloaded from git on 2 March 2022.

[jimjamyaha]

Hey, has anyone tried to compile and run the 7.0.0 rc1?

I've complied it ok - but it doesn't launch/crashes quickly before anything much occurs.

[Cat_7]

Hi,

Yes, for macOS builds using the cocoa interface there is an issue.
There is a fix on the way, but I'm not sure whether it already landed in the master branch.

Best,
Cat_7

[alericcio66]

Hello, I'm trying to understand how to install QEMU on my Mac Mini 2018 with Monterey 12.3.1, but it's over my possibilities. I ask if some of you can help me with a remote connection and screen sharing, with a donation, because I need it to see old CD-ROM for my job, but I am not able to understand what is written, I am not a programmer. I installed with great effort Sheepshaver, with the help of Ronald, but it was explained step by step with windows, and I found out later that it could not run the CD-ROMs made for Power PC, here are only terminal commands that are beyond my possibilities and knowledge. Thank you very much to those who can help me.

[Cat_7]

Hi,

I can try to help you.
Please continue this conversation in the private message system of the forum.

Best,
Cat_7

[Cat_7]

Hi,

I've uploaded a new version of qemu-system-pcc for macOS hosts. See first post in this thread.
The vmnet functionality has finally been included in Qemu. This again allows full network access to the host network on hosts that could no longer run tap-based networking to allow e.g. Appletalk connections. The guide has been updated with this option.

Best,
Cat_7