Rubenerd

After eight years of continuous development, QEMU 1.0 came out on the first of December. After assembling our Christmas tree this afternoon, I set to work building it on my Mac :).

Screenshot of my venerable MacBook Pro running Windows 2000, Windows 3.11 for Workgroups under PC DOS 2000 and FreeBSD 8.2 in the all new QEMU 1.0 :). All fully licenced I might add, I don’t run pirated software thank you very much!

My build environment

• I like to build my own sources in the default /usr/local like a good FreeBSD-heritage guy, its one of the reasons I went back to MacPorts from Homebrew. Use –build-target during the ./configure stage to change the default.

• To save myself time and only install what I need, I generally only build i386 and alpha. Don’t specify any and you’ll build them all by default.

• I can’t get enough of that authentic retro adlib sound, so I build the optional support for this too, along with the widely supported (and also optional) AC97. You can safely ignore these and it will build with default Sound Blaster 16.

• If you’re attempting to build QEMU on a case-insenstive file system, you may run into an error with softfloat.h. I’ve since written a post about how to fix this.

Installing from source

1. Log in as root (or the closest we can get to it on OS X):

   % sudo -s
   

2. Grab and extract the latest sources, in this case the glorious 1.0! I put mine in /usr/local/src to keep things tidy.

3. Configure with the options you want, for all the available options, use the --help flag. In my case:

   # ./configure \
   --enable-cocoa \
   --target-list=i386-softmmu,alpha-softmmu \
   --audio-drv-list=coreaudio\
   --audio-card-list=ac97,adlib,sb16
   

4. Now build:

   # make
   # make install
   # make clean distclean
   

All done

Huge amount of thanks to Fabrice Bellard and all the QEMU committers for their incredible amount of wok over these 8 years. I use your software on a daily basis for work and play.

Now all we need is isapc support back!