[OpenBIOS] QEMU OpenBIOS booting?

Andreas Färber andreas.faerber at web.de
Sun Apr 19 11:44:34 CEST 2009


Am 19.04.2009 um 10:28 schrieb Steven Noonan:

> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber at web.de 
> > wrote:
>>
>> Am 19.04.2009 um 09:50 schrieb Steven Noonan:
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Steven Noonan <steven at uplinklabs.net 
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Laurent Vivier <Laurent at lvivier.info 
>>>> >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> OpenBIOS is not able to boot MacOS X.
>>>>
>>>> Well, that's a silly limitation. Is there a reason this isn't
>>>> implemented? I see that the Mac-on-Linux OpenBIOS version has such
>>>> support, so it seems strange that the QEMU version does not.
>>>
>>> I don't know if anyone here is actually interested (this list seems
>>> -very- quiet), but...
>>>
>>> I've been hacking at OpenBIOS for a bit, and I got it to properly  
>>> read
>>> Mac OS X discs (it kept failing because it would hit an Apple
>>> Partition Map header instead of an HFS+ filesystem header). I'm
>>> working on adding an XCOFF loader, too, so it should be able to boot
>>> Mac OS X soon.
>>>
>>> Any chances I could get these changes merged to the main OpenBIOS  
>>> tree
>>> once they're done?
>>>
>>> My current working repository is at http://github.com/tycho/ 
>>> openbios.
>>> I'm working on the macosx-boot branch. The relevant commit is here
>>> (patch also attached):
>>>
>>> http://github.com/tycho/openbios/commit/4722c8a01d186a08183de49759dc8b7b74cf41c9
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Your work surely sounds interesting. However, making OpenBIOS boot  
>> from the
>> disks is not everything there is to it. Alexander Graf had once  
>> posted a
>> series of patches for making Mac OS X boot in QEMU, including
>> changes/additions to device emulation. They were not merged, not  
>> sure about
>> the status today.
>>
>> One issue iirc was that you need to obtain some Apple ID from a  
>> real Mac of
>> yours and pass that to QEMU for it to work.
>
> Ah, thanks for that tip. I was completely oblivious to his work. But
> from the looks of it, his work is x86-oriented. My intent was to get
> the PowerPC version of Mac OS X running, which will probably be a bit
> easier, particularly since QEMU already emulates the appropriate
> hardware (g3bw, mac99). It's just a matter of getting OpenBIOS to boot
> it, I think.

Wasn't there a recent revert from g3bw to g3beige machine emulation  
due to not fully supported devices?
Might raise some issues with Leopard, Tiger may work better.

Andreas




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