About Qemu-system-ppc, a PPC Mac emulator for Windows, macOS and Linux that can run Mac OS 9.0 up to Mac OS X 10.5
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Someone
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by Someone » Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:56 am
When I tried to create a sparse image using qemu-img, I got this result:
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\qemu-img.exe create -f qcow2 -o size=20G MacOS103.qcow2
Formatting 'MacOS103.qcow2', fmt=qcow2 cluster_size=65536 extended_l2=off compression_type=zlib size=21474836480 lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16
C:\Users\Someone>m
It looks like its doing something, but I don't see a disk image in the qemu directory. And yes, I did get the same result when I tried making a raw image using the instructions in the guide.
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by Cat_7 » Mon Feb 28, 2022 7:49 am
Hi,
I just tested the latest qemu for windows download we provide.
It creates the qcow2 file just fine with:
qemu-img.exe create -f qcow2 -o size=20G MacOS103.qcow2
cd to the folder in which qemu-img.exe is located and issue the command. The file is created in the same location.
Best,
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by adespoton » Mon Feb 28, 2022 8:26 pm
Also worth noting, since you're likely not using snapshotting with OS X PPC, you can also use the -c flag to enable basic compression on the qcow2 files. It doesn't slow the I/O down much over regular qcow2, but can halve the file size.
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by Someone » Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:44 pm
Now its working, thanks.