PowerPC System emulatorΒΆ

Use the executable qemu-system-ppc to simulate a complete 40P (PREP) or PowerMac PowerPC system.

QEMU emulates the following PowerMac peripherals:

  • UniNorth or Grackle PCI Bridge

  • PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions

  • 2 PMAC IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support

  • NE2000 PCI adapters

  • Non Volatile RAM

  • VIA-CUDA with ADB keyboard and mouse.

QEMU emulates the following 40P (PREP) peripherals:

  • PCI Bridge

  • PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions

  • 2 IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support

  • Floppy disk

  • PCnet network adapters

  • Serial port

  • PREP Non Volatile RAM

  • PC compatible keyboard and mouse.

Since version 0.9.1, QEMU uses OpenBIOS https://www.openbios.org/ for the g3beige and mac99 PowerMac and the 40p machines. OpenBIOS is a free (GPL v2) portable firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100% IEEE 1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.

More information is available at http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/qemu-ppc/.