Virtualization - Mac OS X 10.5.8 PowerPC Desktop on Qemu for Windows

Environment

• Host: Windows 10 Intel x64
• Virtualization: QEMU emulator version 6.0.93 (v6.1.0-rc3-11879-ge232c1bc00-dirty)
  qemu-system-ppc.exe
• Guest: Mac OS X 10.5.8 Desktop PowerPC

Screenshots

Instructions

Update from 10.5.0 using https://support.apple.com/kb/dl866?locale=en_US

Notes

• Release mouse control back to host OS pressing Ctrl+Alr+G keys together.
• Network only works if creating a network bridge connection. For my set-up, I called the virtual NIC mytap3458.
• Network MAC address has to be unique. Each one of my Qemu guest NIC have a different MAC address...loads of MAC addresses....
• Confirm the "Network Bridge" (in Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections) is using the correct physical network card (Intel 1.0GB for me). I lost a great deal of time using the wrong NIC.
• Check how to solve the problem with "unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35"
• Check how to solve the problem with Time Machine
• Check how to solve the problem to access the Time Machine shared folder on Mac OS X 10.13

Links

• https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/PowerPC#Mac_OS_9.x_to_Mac_OS_X_10.4
• https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/ppc-osx-on-qemu-for-osx
• https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU/Options
• https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-and-manage-network-bridge-connection-windows-10
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Using_QEMU_on_Windows

Start-up script

/cygdrive/f/VMs, Emulators, Simulators/Qemu/Mac OS X/Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)/Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Desktop/Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) Desktop
qemu-start-mac-os-x-10-5-8.sh

#!/bin/bash



sHD=mac-os-x-10-5-8-system-disk.qcow2

sName="$(basename "$(pwd)"|sed 's/,/,,/g')"



case "$(uname -a)" in

*Cygwin*) P="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/qemu/" ;;

esac

if [[ -z "$P" ]]; then

        echo "ERROR: Cannot identify paht to QEmu tools"

        exit

fi

PATH="$P:$PATH"



[[ ! -e "$sHD" ]] && "qemu.qcow2.exe" create -f qcow2 -o size=100G "$sHD"



# "C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\bin\tapctl.exe" create --hwid root\tap0901

# 52:54:00:12:34:58

#              | |+-> 8: Update 8

#              | +--> 5: Version 10.5

#              +----> 4: Mac OS X

"qemu-system-ppc.exe" \

        -name "${sName}" \

        -L pc-bios \

        -boot c \

        -M mac99,via=pmu \

        -cpu g4 \

        -m 2048 \

        -prom-env "boot-args=-v" \

        -prom-env "vga-ndrv?=true" \

        -prom-env "auto-boot?=true" \

        -drive file="$sHD",format=qcow2,media=disk \

   -netdev tap,ifname=mytap3458,id=mynet0 \

                -device sungem,netdev=mynet0,mac=52:54:00:12:34:58 \

        -usb \

                -device usb-mouse \

                -device usb-kbd \

        -sdl \

        -g 1920x1080x32 \

        -device VGA,edid=on



cat >/dev/null << 'EOF'



https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/usb.html



        -device usb-tablet \

        -drive file="$sHD",format=qcow2,media=disk \

        -netdev tap,id=mynet0,ifname="Local Area Connection",script=no,downscript=no \

        -netdev tap,id=mynet0,ifname=OpenTAB,script=no,downscript=no \

   -netdev user,id=mynet0 \



        -g 1920x1080x32 \



For CD/DVD/DVD DL: 

        -drive file=image.iso,format=qcow2,media=cdrom \



To boot from the 1st device: -boot c

To boot from the 2nd device: -boot d

To boot from the network   : -boot n



External source of information:

        https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/PowerPC#Mac_OS_9.x_to_Mac_OS_X_10.4

        https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/ppc-osx-on-qemu-for-osx

        https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU/Options

        https://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-and-manage-network-bridge-connection-windows-10

        http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Using_QEMU_on_Windows



EOF