Nonetheless, I hope this information is helpful for someone and saves some time fiddling.

My main problem now is I still can't figure out how to set up a shared folder between this QEMU Mac OS X 10.5 guest and my Windows 10 host! The instructions in the E-Maculation wiki is for Mac OS 9.2.2 and not for Mac OS X. Internet access is available via Safari 3.0.4 though most pages refuse to load because of what looks like outdated HTTPS support in this years-old version of Safari. Now, remove the line in the QEMU batch file that attaches the installer image, and change the line with '-boot d' to '-boot c' and the virtual machine will now boot into the freshly installed Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (at least for me). Just manually turn off the virtual machine. This will reboot the QEMU virtual machine back into the installer. DO NOT click the 'Restart' button! Instead open the 'Choose Startup Disk' utility from the 'Utilities' menu, click to select the volume to which you installed Mac OS X 10.5 (called 'Macintosh HD' by default), then click 'Restart.'.

When the Mac OS X 10.5 installer is about to finish, it gave me an 'Install Failed' screen that claims 'The installer could not make the computer start up from the volume 'Macintosh HD'.' At this point, the installer offers to restart the computer for you to retry the installation. _Inc._2007įor some reason, the two 10.5 disc images from Macintosh Garden don't boot for me.Ģ. In the end, the only image that worked for me was this one from the Internet Archive. It was hard to get a disc image of the Mac OS X 10.5 install media that successfully boots into the installer in QEMU. netdev user,id=network01 -device sungem,netdev=network01 ^ĭuring the process, I learned two non-obvious things that may be useful for others intending to do the same.ġ.

prom-env 'auto-boot?=true' -prom-env 'boot-args=-v' -prom-env 'vga-ndrv?=true' ^ Code: Select all qemu-system-ppc-screamer-50.exe ^

Download mac os 10.5 install dmg