PowerPC System emulator — QEMU 5.1.0 documentation

# PowerPC System emulator

Use the executable `qemu-system-ppc` to simulate a complete 40P (PREP) or PowerMac PowerPC system.

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.

QEMU emulates the following 40P (PREP) peripherals:

- PCI Bridge

- PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions

- 2 IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support

- Floppy disk

- PCnet network adapters

- Serial port

- PREP Non Volatile RAM

- PC compatible keyboard and mouse.

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.

More information is available at http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/qemu-ppc/.