Yes, a ROM is needed to boot 68k. The e-maculation site has a pre-built qemu 
68k binary, which I tested, and it does work. So I’m at a loss why the mp 
install didn’t work. Could it have something to do with Apple’s security? Their 
readme has you run the included "allow_qemu_to_run-m68k.command" script. It 
removes an attribute from the files mentioned in the script. This attribute is 
used by Gatekeeper to notice whether a file is signed/notarized/downloaded."


Mark Brethen
[email protected]



> On Aug 15, 2022, at 12:18 PM, Sriranga Veeraraghavan <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> The macports versions of qemu ppc, x86_64, and aarch64 all work for me (at 
> least for OpenBSD & FreeBSD guests) on MacOS 11.6.8 on my M1 Mac.  
> 
> I haven’t tried m68k, but the qemu wiki suggests that MacOS may not be fully 
> bootable yet ("Note: Mac OS currently will not fully boot on 
> qemu-system-m68k”), see:
> 
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/m68k 
> <https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/m68k>
> 
> But e-maculation.com <http://e-maculation.com/>’s m68k guide suggests that it 
> is possible:
> 
> https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/m68k-qemu-on-osx 
> <https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/m68k-qemu-on-osx>
> 
> You may want to try out the approach suggested on that guide.
> 
> Best,
> 
> -ranga
> 
>> On Aug 15, 2022, at 08:42, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> On Aug 13, 2022, at 08:43, Mark Brethen wrote:
>>> 
>>> After installing the qemu port on os 11,  I get a blank window when booting 
>>> macOS, for example:
>>> 
>>> ./qemu-system-m68k -boot d -L pc-bios \
>>> -M q800 -m 64 \
>>> -serial stdio \
>>> -bios Quadra800.rom \
>>> -cdrom MacOS8.0.iso
>>> 
>>> I confirmed the iso does work in other emulators. 
>> 
>> qemu ppc worked fine for me in macOS 11 on Apple Silicon. I didn't test qemu 
>> 68k.
>> 
> 

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