PowerMac family boards (g3beige, mac99) — QEMU documentation

# 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.