Emulating a Power Mac G4 in QEMU?

[Jessica Fa Metadata]

Hello,

I was woundering if any one knows how to run QEMU so it emulates a G4? I have had issues in the past and there seems to be no good guid on how to do it. I have also tried GUI tools like Aqemu and none of them even see the QEMU binarys. The only other one that has seen the QEMU is virt-manager, but I would like to use the cli just because it is more geeky. I am on Mint 18 Cinnimon if it helps. I know why ask here right? I thought I might as well ask about emulating a PowerPC Mac on a Mac forum as the subreddits for PowerPC are basicly dead and many linux subreddits don't have many people who care.

 

[amagichnich]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/leopard-booted-in-a-powerpc-emulator-qemu.1907447/
Maybe this could help you a bit?

 

[LightBulbFun]

Hello,

I was woundering if any one knows how to run QEMU so it emulates a G4? I have had issues in the past and there seems to be no good guid on how to do it. I have also tried GUI tools like Aqemu and none of them even see the QEMU binarys. The only other one that has seen the QEMU is virt-manager, but I would like to use the cli just because it is more geeky. I am on Mint 18 Cinnimon if it helps. I know why ask here right? I thought I might as well ask about emulating a PowerPC Mac on a Mac forum as the subreddits for PowerPC are basicly dead and many linux subreddits don't have many people who care.

modern QEMU is fully capable of emulating a G4 and running Mac OS 9-10.4.11

I recommend compiling for source so your QEMU is the most up to-date,

a good example command line would be

qemu-system-ppc -M mac99 -m 1G -cpu 7400 -g 1024x768x32 -hda /path/to/hard-drive.img -cdrom /path/to/installer.iso -boot d

that will boot the emulated system from the ISO then once your done installing your OS of choice you can remove "-boot d" this will make it startup from the hard drive image

hope this helps