[Qemu-devel] Google Summer of Code 2015 - Implement Mac OS 9 support

[Qemu-devel] Google Summer of Code 2015 - Implement Mac OS 9 support

[Programmingkid]

Implement support for Mac OS 9 in QEMU.

QEMU has gone a long way in emulating a Macintosh. But we can still improve. Adding support for Mac OS 9 would be a great imporovement. This would allow everyone who misses their older applications to be reacquainted with them. It would also expand QEMU's abilities. 

Links:
https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/mac/pdf/MacintoshToolboxEssentials.pdf
http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7047

Details:
Skill level: advanced
Language: C
Mentor: <any volunteers?>

Re: [Qemu-devel] Google Summer of Code 2015 - Implement Mac OS 9 support

[Alexander Graf]

On 05.02.15 17:07, Programmingkid wrote:
> Implement support for Mac OS 9 in QEMU.
> 
> QEMU has gone a long way in emulating a Macintosh. But we can still improve. Adding support for Mac OS 9 would be a great imporovement. This would allow everyone who misses their older applications to be reacquainted with them. It would also expand QEMU's abilities. 
> 
> Links:
> https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/mac/pdf/MacintoshToolboxEssentials.pdf
> http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7047
> 
> Details:
> Skill level: advanced
> Language: C
> Mentor: <any volunteers?>

Mind to add it here as well?

http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2015

Once someone has the TCG parts working, I'd be happy to help out a
student to get this running with KVM. Just imagine you could run Mac OS
9 on a POWER8 machine. Woohoo!


Alex

Re: [Qemu-devel] Google Summer of Code 2015 - Implement Mac OS 9 support

[Programmingkid]

On Feb 5, 2015, at 11:09 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:

> 
> 
> On 05.02.15 17:07, Programmingkid wrote:
>> Implement support for Mac OS 9 in QEMU.
>> 
>> QEMU has gone a long way in emulating a Macintosh. But we can still improve. Adding support for Mac OS 9 would be a great imporovement. This would allow everyone who misses their older applications to be reacquainted with them. It would also expand QEMU's abilities. 
>> 
>> Links:
>> https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/mac/pdf/MacintoshToolboxEssentials.pdf
>> http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7047
>> 
>> Details:
>> Skill level: advanced
>> Language: C
>> Mentor: <any volunteers?>
> 
> Mind to add it here as well?
> 
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2015

I'm not a registered user who can do that. The directions on the GSOC 2015 page said to just post to the developer mailing list. The web administrator will probably add the request to the page. 

> 
> Once someone has the TCG parts working, I'd be happy to help out a
> student to get this running with KVM. Just imagine you could run Mac OS
> 9 on a POWER8 machine. Woohoo!

It think that is very possible. I think the Power8 has a built in PowerPC inside. With it we might be able to run Mac OS 9 at near native speed! 

Re: [Qemu-devel] Google Summer of Code 2015 - Implement Mac OS 9 support

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

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On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 11:07:40AM -0500, Programmingkid wrote:
> Implement support for Mac OS 9 in QEMU.
> 
> QEMU has gone a long way in emulating a Macintosh. But we can still improve. Adding support for Mac OS 9 would be a great imporovement. This would allow everyone who misses their older applications to be reacquainted with them. It would also expand QEMU's abilities. 

What is missing?  Please explain which features need to be added so Mac
OS 9 can run.

Stefan

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Google Summer of Code 2015 - Implement Mac OS 9 support

[Programmingkid]

On Feb 6, 2015, at 11:14 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 11:07:40AM -0500, Programmingkid wrote:
>> Implement support for Mac OS 9 in QEMU.
>> 
>> QEMU has gone a long way in emulating a Macintosh. But we can still improve. Adding support for Mac OS 9 would be a great imporovement. This would allow everyone who misses their older applications to be reacquainted with them. It would also expand QEMU's abilities. 
> 
> What is missing?  Please explain which features need to be added so Mac
> OS 9 can run.

Part of this position is figuring that out. It is going to take a lot of poking and prodding to find out what expectations are not being met. I suspect that there are issues with the Mac OS Rom file not being placed into memory correctly. That is not the only problem. We have no sound support of Mac OS. None of the sound cards that come with QEMU are Mac compatible. Then there is the network card issue. Networking doesn't work yet with a Mac OS guest. One more thing we need is USB support for Mac OS hosts. So to answer your question, what is missing - a lot.