Mouse Cursor Freezes when Emulating Cheetah and Puma

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CamSox
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Mouse Cursor Freezes when Emulating Cheetah and Puma

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Hello all, I downloaded cd images of Cheetah and Puma from WinWorldPC and set them up and everything, but when I go to boot to it and get to the installation screen in Cheetah/Puma, the cursor stays in the top left hand corner and won't move if I try to move it. I've also tried using an external USB mouse (I have a laptop). Here's whats in my qemu-command file if it helps (For Puma obviously):

#!/bin/bash
cd "$(dirname "$0")"

./qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -boot d -M mac99,via=pmu -m 512 -prom-env 'auto-boot?=true' -prom-env 'boot-args=-v' -prom-env 'vga-ndrv?=true' -drive file=Puma.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom -drive file=Puma.img,format=raw,media=disk -netdev user,id=network01 -device sungem,netdev=network01

Thanks in advance for any assistance!
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Re: Mouse Cursor Freezes when Emulating Cheetah and Puma

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For these version of OSX, try to use -M mac99 (without the ,via=pmu) on the command line.

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CamSox
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Re: Mouse Cursor Freezes when Emulating Cheetah and Puma

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Success! Thank you! However, when going through the setup, it does not detect any destination volume to install the OS, despite having a hard drive image in my QEMU folder.

I really appreciate the help, thank you so much!
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Re: Mouse Cursor Freezes when Emulating Cheetah and Puma

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Qemu behaves just like a real mac with a new disk: you need to use disk utility to partition and format the disk before it becomes available to the installer.

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