Well, I have weird ideas always...
I've installed QEMU for Windows. I know, it can emulate PPC. So my question is - is it possible to create a VM under QEMU, which will be capable to run OS 9.0? I've tried to install it, but I do something wrong - I can't even see an Mac Face on screen...
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
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2014, April 13 - 5:01pm
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MacOsS 9.0 under QEMU - is it possible?
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2014, April 14 - 3:22am
#2
I believe there is too much custom firmware on old Macs for this to work. I believe it can boot some PPC server (IBM) OS, but even then it doesn't get through the boot process.
You will get much better and easier results with SheepShaver.
PS. I installed OpenStep 4.2 from floppy/CD on real hardware, so I know where you are coming from 
2014, April 24 - 6:33pm
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Firmware? I wouldn't use that word for Mac OS 9.x and older. It's more like a classic boot-up ROM. See, any Mac OS Classic emulator needs to recognize the ROM files in such a way that they can be used alongside with the Mac OS. This is not easy, as the Mac itself has several variants on these ROMs. On top of this, the MMU apparently isn't advanced enough to emulate 9.1 and later.
Natalia posted on what needed to be done, which is to say quite a bit.
In other words: It's not emulated now and not very likely not to emulated by QEMU in the (near) future