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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Emulation => Topic started by: MigMac on August 06, 2024, 10:57:33 PM

Title: VMs: regular backups or/and Rescue disk ?
Post by: MigMac on August 06, 2024, 10:57:33 PM

Question, advice sought...

In your experience what is best for a MacOS9 virtual machine (Qemu, UTM):

1) regular backups, especially before installing some big software that might generate extensions conflict

2) setting up a rescue disk in the machine with some tools: Disk Warrior, Norton Utilities, TechTools Pro... maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me that most features with those make sense with real hardware but are not relevant for an emulated environment

Thanks

Title: Re: VMs: regular backups or/and Rescue disk ?
Post by: thirdbanana on September 02, 2024, 06:04:34 AM

I am yet to run OS9 in an emulator, but for work/dev I usually run kvm (with qemu as needed, which probably hints as how I want to emulate the Mac). In it I run a snapshot before I do something I may regret later; they are supported by qcow2 and lvm. Reasons:

• If upgrade was successful, I just delete the snapshot.
• If I use qcow, it is a sparse disk

Of course, none of that may work in OS9 emulation.  :D