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[MigMac]

I have made several attempts to use MacOS921 or 922 with UTM (and genuine files from MacOSlives). Latest try seemed to go fine but after successive reboots (getting rid of the Apple Audio extension, setting up French keyboard, text behaviour, desktop appearance etc...) typing went totally weird: it generates small rectangles or squares instead of text/letters.

Though I'm pretty ignorant about Qemu, I wonder if some keyboard setting argument  has to be given to the emulator (host end) prior to any change within the emulated OS9.

Is it a known issue? Is there a fix?

thanks

[MigMac]

Apparently solved.

Changed the settings for keyboard, text behaviour, also disabled font smoothing... placed another version of Simple Text. Seems fine, fingers crossed.

[Protools5LEGuy]

Great. Keep posting if that solved it

[MigMac]

Great. Keep posting if that solved it

After many tries (and errors) I think I'm close to a fully functional MacOS 9.2.1 virtual drive with UTM thanks to user V.Yakob (DieHard disks were also very useful).

I'm experimenting things to transfer files: host <-->guest, as Copy and Paste, USB and Shared Folder are not possible options

From host to guest, it's lame but quite simple: I make an empty .img disk which I fill with whatever I need from a Sheepshaver VM (Unix shared folder available), then I use the add disk function in UTM and there you go, you get a new disk that mounts on MacOS9 and you transfer your files.

Two problems: you have to repeat the process each time and delete the new q2cow disk created by UTM, otherwise your Host HDD will be filled with many disks like that as many as the number of 'transfers' you perform.

Second issue: it doesn't work the other way round, the data you transfer from the UTM virtual drive are 'stored' in the q2cow disk, the .img remains unchanged...and q2cow disks aren't readable/usable with SheepShaver.

I'll explore the various add disk options (amovible etc...) to see what happens. Time consuming but fun in a way...