Re: NetBSD 9.2 on Quadra 800 emulated by QEMU

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 1:58 AM <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Thanks for that pointer. Works as advertised!
>
> Great that things work!
>
> I've tried getting m68k Mac emulation working on qemu 6, but so far qemu
> just exits. Do you have any guide or quick how-to about how you've gotten
> things running?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>

Hi, that is because the code required is not yet in main line qemu.
You would have to build your own qemu from:
https://github.com/mcayland/qemu/tree/q800-dev-mca.nearly
and then first install Mac OS 8 and from that use the Mac OS based NetBSD
installation method. You might run into disk partitioning issues that can
be helped if you first use the Apple HD SCSI partitioning toolk for A/UX
3.0. You might still run into issues that have not yet been resolved around
booting from cd image and sector size.
Some preliminary help can be found here but it is in no way finished:
https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/m68k-qemu-on-windows

Best,
Howard