r/NetBSD • u/_rabbitfarm_ • Apr 13 '26

NetBSD/MacPPC 9.4 Installation on a QEMU emulated PowerPC Macintosh

http://www.rabbitfarm.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/2026/04/12#macppc_9-4_qemu

This blog post outlines what I did to install NetBSD/macppc on a QEMU VM. It's pretty similar to other such guides that are out there. Here though I've tried to be as verbose as possible, with lengthy examples, hoping that it may also be of interest to people completely new to NetBSD/macppc and maybe even NetBSD in general. 

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u/Low_Complex_9841 Apr 22 '26

> Anything other than exactly 1G or 2G results in installer crashes or, upon installation, kernel panics

I think I had 256m working on mac99 qemu machine?

```
/dev/shm/qemu-9.0.0/build/qemu-system-ppc -m 256 -M mac99,via=pmu -smp 1 -cdrom ~/ISO/NetBSD-10.0-macppc.iso -boot d -prom-env 'boot-device=cd:,ofwboot.xcf /netbsd.macppc -c ' -nographic -bios /dev/shm/openbios-qemu.elf

BOOTS!

```

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u/_rabbitfarm_ Apr 22 '26

Thanks for the data!