That’s right, the ADB is usable enough now to type and move the mouse, meaning that OS X Server can now be installed within Qemu!
Windows 98 and Me do not work either despite the added USB support - this is because the QEMU mouse driver requires USB 1.1 and Windows 98/Me only supported 1.0 out of the box. QEMU also has some problems running Windows 95 itself - it tends to be glitchy at times and sometimes BSODs or crashes, but this happens rarely and its not unusable. QEMU will reboot and Windows 95 should begin to run. Suggested command-line: qemu-system-i386 -netdev user,id=mynet0 -device ne2kisa,netdev=mynet0 -hda win95.qcow2-soundhw sb16 -m 64 -cpu pentium -vga cirrus -localtime -boot c -soundhw pcspk If Windows 95 crashes on you consider it normal. It was unfortunately never very stable. Description Mac OS 9 requires at least a PowerPC G3 and can only be used on a PowerPC architecture. However, using QEMU, running it as a Virtual Machine is.
Mar 04, 2020 If you have a Windows 98 installation disc, you can install the operating system to a QEMU virtual machine. The CD should be for generic systems. The CD should be for generic systems. If you got your copy from an OEM (like HP or Dell), they may not have included drivers that QEMU may need. Install Windows 98 On Qemu Mac Install - arselfie In Windows: -Make sure you have some folder shared -Bridge your tap device with your default network interface (see above)-Start Mac OS 9 through Qemu with tap networking -Use DHCP on the Mac side.
It’s incredibly slow, and the mouse is incredibly jumpy, but it’s actually running!
Basically, like A/UX, you boot up into MacOS to partition the drive.
qemu-system-ppc-screamer.exe -L pc-bios -m 256 -M mac99 -prom-env “boot-args=-v” -prom-env “auto-boot?=true” -prom-env “vga-ndrv?=true” -hda 2GB.vmdk -cdrom “Mac OS X Server 1.2, MOSX_Booter.iso” -sdl -device usb-mouse -device adb-keyboard -boot d
OS X Server 1.2 MacOS 9 Create OS X Server partition
And then kick off the installer:
Run Qemu On Windows
Which really isn’t much to do, other than tagging the partition, and prepping the machine to reboot.
It’s OK
Qemu doesn’t emulate the NVRAM, so it’ll complete with this ‘non fatal’ ‘fatal error’
After that, boot into the OS X Server kernel, and continue the install:
qemu-system-ppc.exe -L pc-bios -prom-env “boot-args=-v rd=sd0″ -drive file=2GB.vmdk,index=1,format=vmdk,media=disk -M g3beige -cpu g3 -drive file=”Mac OS X Server 1.2, MOSX_Booter.iso”,index=0,format=raw,media=cdrom -prom-env “boot-device=cd:9,:tbxi” -m 256 -net none
It will then format the disk, and copy over the base operating system. After that it’s time to shutdown, and reboot the VM. I couldn’t figure out a pure hard disk boot, but again using the CD-ROM, you can just tell it to pull the root from the hard disk.
qemu-system-ppc.exe -L pc-bios -prom-env “boot-args=-v rd=hd0″ -drive file=2GB.vmdk,index=1,format=vmdk,media=disk -M g3beige -cpu g3 -drive file=”Mac OS X Server 1.2, MOSX_Booter.iso”,index=0,format=raw,media=cdrom -prom-env “boot-device=cd:9,:tbxi” -m 256 -net none
OS X Server 1.2 installing
And after this, it’ll want to reboot again. Launch it up and now we get the initial setup
And with that out of the way, we can logon!
And after a while, it’ll load up the desktop
OS X Server 1.2 Desktop
As mentioned above, the mouse is incredibly jittery. Doing anything graphical is very difficult. But here we are, running OS X/Rhapsody for the PowerPC!
Using Qemu On Windows
Because the mouse is VERY jumpy at the moment, Im going to make some pre-configured disk images available because running the disk tool under OS 9 is a major pain. The first image has only been partitioned, while the second has completed the ‘text mode setup’, aka a minimal install.
And that’s it for now!
Windows 98 is an operating system created by Microsoft, released in June 1998. There is an updated version of Windows 98 called Windows 98 Second Edition which fixes some bugs. Support ended in July 2006.
Running on CollabVM[edit]
Unlike Windows 95, the mouse can be installed very easily using this guide.
After doing this the VM will run smoothly and can easily be used.
Starting up[edit]
QEMU[edit]
Pre-installation[edit]
Make a qcow2 image (or a raw image if you want) by typing
1G can be replaced with however big you want the hard drive to be (with G standing for Gigabytes). Windows 98 is a very old OS and does not take up a lot of space.
When that's done, run the following command:
Windows 98 works on some machines with KVM, some it doesn't. To be safe, we'll just disable it, you don't really need it anyways. We also use an emulated Pentium II instead of a Pentium although it works on an emulated Pentium just fine.
You can also use VMWare graphics adapter instead of Cirrus if you have the drivers available.
We set the memory to 128 MB, but it can run on as low as 8 MB of RAM, although this isn't recommended if you want to be running any programs.
After installation[edit]
Windows On Qemu