QEMU windows can't even boot
Posted: Thu May 07, 2026 7:33 pm
I want to emulate OS 9 and/or X with QEMU so I installed QEMU 24 09 2024 and 2025 and following tutorial in website. But when it came to start the emulation... it said
What I am trying to boot:
qemu-system-ppc.exe ^
-L pc-bios ^
-M mac99,via=pmu ^
-m 512 ^
-display sdl ^
-boot d ^
-drive file=MacOS9.2.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom ^
-drive file=MacOS9.2.img,format=raw,media=disk
As MacOS9.2.img what qemu-img made and the .iso copy paste and changed file extention
so I looked up for solutions but didn't find any. After looking in the command prompt it looked like it couldn't find some file so I copied and did literally everything in the possible to try to boot but nothing works. The windows is shown but it either says the guest not initialized, or in the command prompt the windows stays white and both situation it stops and close the windows after a few seconds."Guest has not initialized the display (yet!)"
What I am trying to boot:
qemu-system-ppc.exe ^
-L pc-bios ^
-M mac99,via=pmu ^
-m 512 ^
-display sdl ^
-boot d ^
-drive file=MacOS9.2.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom ^
-drive file=MacOS9.2.img,format=raw,media=disk
As MacOS9.2.img what qemu-img made and the .iso copy paste and changed file extention