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Re: [Qemu-ppc] qemu-ppc booting from mac-osx dvd
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Programmingkid |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] qemu-ppc booting from mac-osx dvd |
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Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:03:25 -0400 |
On Sep 26, 2013, at 8:38 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 25/09/13 23:24, Programmingkid wrote:
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>> This should do it:
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>> qemu-system-ppc -cdrom /dev/cdrom -m 512 -boot d
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>> or maybe this:
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>> qemu-system-ppc -cdrom ~/Desktop/macos10.4.iso -m 512 -boot d
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>> or maybe this one:
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>> qemu-system-ppc -m 512 -M mac99 -cdrom <some file> -hdd <some file> -boot d
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>> Please be sure to use QEMU 1.6.0 or higher when trying. Mac OS X support
>> was only added recently. Also stick with -hdd if you want to use a file
>> as the hard drive. The other hd letters don't allow Mac OS X to boot.
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>> The only version of Mac OS X I have installed successfully was Mac OS
>> 10.2. Maybe you might have better luck.
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> I've seen some reports in various forums that adding -cpu g3 might help here
> - unfortunately I don't have a copy so I can't verify this.
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> HTH,
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> Mark.
Odd, when I try it, I see this message: "Unable to find PowerPC CPU
definition". It probably doesn't matter. The default CPU is already the G3
processor.