Sheepshaver is the only emulator for PC that actually works with Mac OS 9. As for replacing your primary system on a PC with Mac OS 9, you cannot because the architecture is different (OS9 was. The trick is to move it to the Mac OS 9 hard drive and then you know for sure it's copying it to the Mac OS 9 environment (then you can place it anywhere you want like on the desktop) ** START FRESH if you already extracted it within OSX. Re-download the SIT file and copy it to the Mac OS 9 environment first, then extract it and work from there.
I have the same issue and don't need the snide answers. How is it done??!! I'm not throwing my OS 9 or any other disk away and the question is about OS 9 and not OS-X whatever animal flavor it is. Naturally enough I want to run some old and excellent Mac programs that run on OS 9 which is not similar in any way to Open BSD - We are not asking to run the same system Macs are on - this is the old system and has very little in common with OS-X except the Mac name. Please, if you don't have a working answer for the question as asked, don't waste our time by posting.
What is QEMU for Windows - PPC emulator, runs Mac OS 9.1, 9.2 + OSX 10.0 to 10.5? QEMU is a very versatile and extremely broadly supported open source virtual machine emulator. In 2016, QEMU could finally achieve what has never been possible before: emulating Mac OS 9.0.4, 9.1 and 9.2.2 (albeit still it's quite slow and the sound support is kind of buggy at the moment). Note that QEMU can also emulate Mac OS X 10.0 up to 10.5. At some point in the near future hopefully, QEMU will fully replace, but at the moment, SheepShaver still runs faster in most situations.
Advantages of using QEMU vs SheepShaver:. Mac OS 9.1.x and 9.2.x emulation (SheepShaver cannot). Much more stable networking (SheepShaver randomly crashes while using the networking features). Cursor animation (or anything else for the matter) does not reset the pointer in the host OS (SheepShaver does and it's annoying!). QEMU can run on almost all imaginable CPU architectures, even ARM (e.g.: Raspberry Pi) These bundles were put together by 'that-ben' and are intended to be the easiest possible for beginners. Just launch the 'QEMU - Mac OS 9.2.2.bat' (or 'QEMU - Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11.bat') file and wait 30 seconds for Mac OS to boot up. Nevermind the yellow screen with a VRAM partition not found error, it will go past this without any problem.
The Mac OS 9 package contains a 450MB disk image on which Mac OS 9.2.2 is already fully installed. The Mac OS X package contains Mac OS X 10.4.11.
If you need a larger disk image, you can grab one instantly from here: Networking is functional thanks to the Realtek rtl8139 driver for Mac OS 9, which is pre-installed here for you already. It will use DHCP and network through your host Windows machine. 741 / 2017-12-18 / 3610454fff128182efa343478e86ca587fe940c3 / Architecture Intel x86-64 Compatibility notes This program is for Windows. USEFUL TIPS WHEN USING QEMU:. To install another Mac OS version, exit QEMU if it's running and then simply edit the 'QEMU - Boot with a CD ISO.bat' command file with the Notepad to reflect your actual install CD ISO file location and launch that batch file. To capture/uncapture the mouse pointer, hit CTRL-ALT together. Since 2018, it's now CTRL-ALT-G.
To go toggle the full screen mode on or off, hit CTRL-ALT-F. Hit CTRL-ALT-2 together to open/close the QEMU console. DO NOT HIT THE X TO CLOSE THAT WINDOW OR IT WILL INSTANTLY EXIT THE WHOLE QEMU AND THE VIRTUAL MACINTOSH WITH IT. To hot-attach a disk image ISO, in the QEMU console, adapt this command: change ide1-cd0 C:/path/to/file.iso. To hot-detach a disk image ISO, first in OS9, put it the trash, then in the QEMU console, type this: eject ide1-cd0.