These are some notes on how to run Amiga like OSes (like AROS, AmigaOS and MorphOS) on QEMU that I’ve written to have some up to date info on the status and help new users. All this emulation in QEMU comes without any support and it’s not expected to be complete or do everything one may desire or dream about. It’s not a commercial product with a roadmap or any goal and still a work in progress which may never get finished. I’m doing it for personal interest and in my (limited) free time, no donations are solicited or accepted. So don’t expect it to be anything more than a curiosity at the moment and its future depends on what the open source community makes of it. Keep this in mind when trying this.
I’m giving this visibility so hopefully QEMU’s PowerPC support for these Amiga-like operating systems can be improved.
Always kind of wondered why more emulation wasn’t just done through libvirt/kvm/qemu for different architectures.
Well… The reason might be KVM is not exactly an emulation (in the broad sense) but a virtualization/paravirtualization (hardware-assisted) interface – it is used to virtualize x86 on x86 or ARM on ARM – provided the given CPU has virtualization extensions.
Edited 2018-07-17 13:20 UTC
QEmu had/has a BeBox option. It’d be nice to see that expanded on too. BeOS PowerPC booting on a VM would be sort of sweet! If only for the 3D Be logo.
Luigi Burdo has videos of emulating the SAM460 and running MorphOS and AmigaOS4 on his threadripper 1950.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZJ42NPG8Qo (morphos 3.11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML7-F4HNFKQ (AmigaOS4.1 Final)