QEMU/PowerPC

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QEMU can emulate the PowerPC architecture. It is able to run a handful of operating systems which I'll document below.

Platforms

The following machines can be emulated. To see a full list type qemu-system-ppc --M help.

Model Name Notes
40p IBM RS/6000 7020 (40p) (1990) Can boot AIX, cannot currently boot NT 4
bamboo bamboo board First machine emulated by PowerPC
g3beige Heathrow based PowerMAC (1997)
mac99 Mac99 based PowerMAC (1999) Can run Mac OS 9.2 - 10.5 and some Linux distros
mpc8544ds Mpc8544ds dev board
none Empty machine
pegasos2 Genesi/bPlan Pegasos II Can run AmigaOS 4.1 and some other Amiga-like OSes
ppce500 Generic paravirt e500 platform
ref405ep ref405ep Needs a file named ppc405_rom.bin which does not seem to be available anymore
sam460ex aCube Sam460ex Can run AmigaOS 4.1 FE and some others
virtex-ml507 Xilinx Virtex ML507 reference design