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.