How To Install & Use Qemu On A Mac (Final)

Q𝐞𝐦𝐮 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨. 𝐐𝐞𝐦𝐮 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐰-𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲, 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭-𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐬 (𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐒𝐎 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐒)

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐐𝐞𝐦𝐮 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐎𝐒𝐗, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰

https://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/ppc-osx-on-qemu-for-osx
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INSTALLING BREW & QEMU

Right off the bat; Create a directory for Qemu, create a folder anywhere on your hard drive. Don't over-complicate it, just call it "QEMU".

Open "Terminal" either going to Spotlight and entering 'Terminal', or going to your applications folder, Utilities and you'll see Terminal in there.

Once open, you'll need to install Homebrew, which you can do from the following link below. Copy and paste the command into terminal and hit enter.

/𝐮𝐬𝐫/𝐛𝐢𝐧/𝐫𝐮𝐛𝐲 -𝐞 "$(𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐥 -𝐟𝐬𝐒𝐋 𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐬://𝐫𝐚𝐰.𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭.𝐜𝐨𝐦/𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐰/𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥/𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫/𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥)"

The Homebrew website can be found below
https://brew.sh/

Once Homebrew is installed, it's time to install QEMU. Again in terminal, copy and paste the following code below

𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐪𝐞𝐦𝐮

The official QEMU website can be found here:
https://www.qemu.org/

The QEMU Project can also be found on Github here;
https://github.com/qemu/qemu

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INSTALLING YOUR OS

Make sure you have an ISO file ready-to-go. You can't run an OS out of thin air. You need to download one before-hand. Check the OS ISO Folder

𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐀 𝐕𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐊:
We'll be using 20 Gigs as an example. You can make it however much you want. But it's recommended to stick to 20-or-so.

qemu-img create -f raw -o size=20G NAMEYOUWANTTOCALLOS.img

(𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 .𝐢𝐦𝐠 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞, 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬. 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝟕, 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 "𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬𝟕.𝐢𝐦𝐠") .


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Find the ISO file of the OS you want to install, drag & drop it into the terminal, and replace the bold lettering with it.

qemu-system-x86_64 -boot d -cdrom 𝐎𝐒 𝐈𝐒𝐎 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 -m 2048M -hda 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐎𝐅 .𝐈𝐌𝐆 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄.img

It will then boot.
Install and wait for it.


𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐒:
To boot the installed Mac OS, you need to edit the qemu.command file:
Change the “-boot d” argument to “-boot c”.
Reverse the order in which your disk and cd rom entry are listed in qemu.command.
So, when booting with “-boot c”, make sure your hard disk image file is listed first. If you have no need for the cd rom disk to be available, you can remove the entry from the command line. Save the file. Double-click qemu.command and Mac OS will boot from the hard disk.
Done.

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞: 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐝𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 .𝐈𝐌𝐆 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭
𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠

"𝐪𝐞𝐦𝐮-𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦-𝐱𝟖𝟔_𝟔𝟒: -𝐡𝐝𝐚 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄.𝐢𝐦𝐠: 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 '𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄.𝐢𝐦𝐠': 𝐍𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲"

𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 .𝐈𝐌𝐆 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝.

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 .𝐈𝐌𝐆 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧, 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝐢𝐧
"𝐜𝐝" 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥. 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫.

𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞:
𝐜𝐝 /𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐬/𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋\ 𝐇𝐃/𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬/𝐐𝐄𝐌𝐔