PowerMac family boards (g3beige, mac99)

Use the executable qemu-system-ppc to simulate a complete PowerMac PowerPC system.

• g3beige Heathrow based PowerMac
• mac99 Mac99 based PowerMac

Supported devices

QEMU emulates the following PowerMac peripherals:

• UniNorth or Grackle PCI Bridge
• PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
• 2 PMAC IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
• NE2000 PCI adapters
• Non Volatile RAM
• VIA-CUDA with ADB keyboard and mouse.

Missing devices

• To be identified

Firmware

Since version 0.9.1, QEMU uses OpenBIOS https://www.openbios.org/ for the g3beige and mac99 PowerMac and the 40p machines. OpenBIOS is a free (GPL v2) portable firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100% IEEE 1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.