In this step we will create a user account and install all of the system updates.Ĭreate a snapshot of the disk (think of this as forking the hard drive): Mark the disk as read-only to prevent any accidental writes to it (which would cause any snapshots based on this disk to become corrupt):Step 2: User account creation, system updates When it completes, it will reboot, which will cause QEMU to exit (due to the -no-reboot flag).Īt this point you may (physically) eject the installation DVD (from your host Mac). The install will take quite some time (over an hour). Quit Disk Utility and the installer should now see the newly formatted partition: ’Erase’ the disk to partition and format it: When the installer reaches the disk selection screen, there will be no disks to choose from, because the disk has not been partitioned yet: QEMU will exit when the installer reboots. If you see the grey Apple logo, the DVD is working correctly with QEMU:īoot the install DVD with the disk attached and being the installation. iso to a physical DVD and then use -cdrom /dev/disk2, it works. iso files of the OS X installation DVD (using -cdrom tiger.iso),but if you burn that. Note: for some reason qemu does not seem to be able to boot. In this step we will format the disk and perform the initial OS X installation.ĭownload a copy of the2Z691-5305-A OS X Tiger installation DVDand burn it to a physical DVD. Note: at some point during this process -cdrom /dev/cdrom seems to have stopped working, but -cdrom /dev/disk2 works.Step 1: Initial installation This setup was performed using QEMU 5.0.0 (obtained via brew install qemu). Here are some notes on how I set up an installation of OS X Tiger (10.4)on an emulated PowerPC G4 using QEMU,on a modern x86_64 Mac.
If anyone has trouble getting this burned disc to be seen during the initial disc boot phase, I’ve found the G4/G5 factory optical drives are pretty terrible at reading burned DVDs. Mac OS X Leopard Install DVDVersion 10.5.42Z691-6232-A. “gotoh” has posted the fix in The Mac Elite Forum. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard boot times for Power Mac with GeForce 6200 fall into the 4-5 minute range, and it was initially suggested that you install Leopard with the Mac’s original video card to avoid slowing down the process. Apple Specs: Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver) Cautions.
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