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MacOS 10.4 virtualised in M1 Silicon
Posted by: ironborn65 on 2023-02-14 03:38:05 Hi everyone, in order to network my 68k (+some G3s) classic macs, I want to install MacOS 10.4 in a virtualised environment: I want to avoid yet another hardware hanging around. I'd like to use my M1 Silicon for this purpose, where I can access files, NAS, images and run BasiliskII. I've tried with UTM and VirtualBox, but in both cases I run into an issue that I can not address by Googling around. I believe it depends on the underlying CPU architecture, e.g. I can not set 2 CPUs as most are recommending. Is there anyone here who succeeded in virtualising a 10.3 10.4 in a M1 architecture? PS: Attached the recurring error I can no get rid of
Posted by: michaelengel on 2023-02-14 17:56:19 This looks like some exception in time conversion functions, perhaps a division by zero due to the emulated CPU running too fast (but that's just speculation). As an alternative, you could try to run OS X 10.4 for PPC in qemu as described on github: https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/63b2914711f9ee32053d3c1f48d5c89a
Posted by: robin-fo on 2023-02-14 22:03:05 Is there anyone here who succeeded in virtualising a 10.3 10.4 in a M1 architecture? Sure! Even MacOS 9! I use UTM. There is even a pre-made OS 9 VM you can download from their Website. For OS X (I can confirm 10.2 Server and 10.3 Server work, not tested others), I used these: https://github.com/adespoton/utmconfigs (separate install media needed)
Posted by: ironborn65 on 2023-02-15 06:16:12 Thanks, but I got frustrated with Tiger, so I reverted to 9.2.1 which is out of the box from UTM. I can now share a folder in AppleTalk to my other Macs.
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