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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Emulation => Topic started by: KenaiPhoenix on September 07, 2026, 06:32:09 PM

Title: Is this a good config for QEMU?
Post by: KenaiPhoenix on September 07, 2026, 06:32:09 PM

Hello!

Im running QEMU-Screamer on Linux, so I can have sound. And I do it this way:

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qemuscreamer-system-ppc \
    -M mac99 \
    -m 1000 \
    -cpu g4 \
    -hda "/mnt/TacticalFastboi/VMac/MacDrive.img" \
    -drive file="/mnt/TacticalFastboi/VMac/SharedDrive.img",format=raw,if=ide,index=1 \
    -cdrom /dev/sr0 \
    -netdev user,id=mynet \
    -device sungem,netdev=mynet \
    -device usb-mouse \
    -device usb-kbd \
    -boot c
Now, this is my first time successfully running a VM, and I mainly based this on tutorials and random questions on "How to".

so far so good, but I want to ask if there is room for improvement. I failed to load a joystick, but this seems to be related to QEMU-Screamer, sadly.

Performance for some software is good enough, I think (I never had a MacOs9 before), but internet is really slow, and idk if it because of this configuration or just the limitations of QEMU + MacOS9

Thanks!

Title: Re: Is this a good config for QEMU?
Post by: laulandn on September 08, 2026, 11:51:08 AM

Looks good to me.

This is what I just used, so very similar:
qemu-system-ppc \
-M mac99 \
-m 512 \
-hda classilla_build_sys.img \
-hdb classilla_build_second.img \
-netdev user,id=mynet -device sungem,netdev=mynet \
-device usb-mouse -device usb-kbd \
-drive file=power-machten414.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom

(as far as I know the "mynet" stuff is arbitrary)