Documentation/Platforms/m68k

The following machines are emulated through qemu-system-m68k:

Machine model selector	Provides
-m g3beige	Heathrow based PowerMAC (default)
-m mac99	Mac99 based PowerMAC
-m 40p	IBM RS/6000 7020 (40p)
-m bamboo	Bamboo
-m mpc8544ds	Mpc8544ds
-m none	Empty machine
-m ppce500	Generic paravirt e500 platform
-m prep	PowerPC PREP platform (deprecated in favour of the 40p machine )
-m ref405ep	Ref405ep
-m sam460ex	aCube Sam460ex
-m taihu	Taihu
-m virtex-ml507	Xilinx Virtex ML507 reference design

You can select the desired machine with the -M command line option.

Installing Linux

Download a m68k distribution, such as debian-10.0-m68k-NETINST-1.iso. Create a hard disk image to install onto.

Extract the installation kernel and initrd from the installation CD:

 guestfish --add debian-10.0-m68k-NETINST-1.iso --ro --mount /dev/sda:/
 <fs> copy-out /install/cdrom/initrd.gz .
 <fs> copy-out /install/kernels/vmlinux-4.16.0-1-m68k .

Boot from the CD image:

 ./qemu-system-m68k -boot d \
 -M q800 -serial none -serial mon:stdio -m 1000M \
 -net nic,model=dp83932 -net user \
 -append "console=ttyS0 vga=off" \
 -kernel vmlinux-4.16.0-1-m68k \
 -initrd initrd.gz \
 -drive file=m68k-deb10.qcow2,format=qcow2 \
 -drive file=debian-10.0-m68k-NETINST-1.iso,format=raw,media=cdrom \
 -nographic

Use the following for the source for network-based installation:

 http://ftp.ports.debian.org
 /debian-ports/

After installation, extract the kernel and initrd from the hard disk image;

 guestfish --add m68k-deb10.qcow2 --mount /dev/sda2:/
 <fs>copy-out /boot/vmlinux-4.16.0-1-m68k .
 <fs>copy-out /boot/initrd.img-4.16.0-1-m68k .

To boot from the HD image, you can use:

 ./qemu-system-m68k -boot c \
 -M q800 -serial none -serial mon:stdio -m 1000M \
 -net nic,model=dp83932 -net user \
 -append "root=/dev/sda2 rw console=ttyS0 console=tty \
 -kernel vmlinux-4.16.0-1-m68k \
 -initrd initrd.img-4.16.0-1-m68k \
 -drive file=m68k-deb10.qcow2,format=qcow2 \
 -nographic