Emulator For Linux Ubuntu Mac OS Version

SheepShaver emulates a Macintosh computer capable of running Mac OS version 9.0.4 and earlier.

This guide is a work-in-progress, but it should walk you through the basic set-up of SheepShaver in Linux.

SheepShaver uses a part of memory that is protected by SElinux.

We provide a pair of packages that were built on Ubuntu IntelAMD 64 bit.

There is a build that runs in full-screen (if you are experiencing bad mouse movement, check the forum notes).

And a build that runs in a window (the full-screen build crashes a lot when running in a window).

If you plan to use the sheepnet driver for networking (see the networking section below for more detail), you can set it up now.

Emulator For Linux Ubuntu Download The Sheepnet

Download the sheepnet.ko file from the same forum entry and place it in your home folder.

Please be aware that the SDL versions of SheepShaver do not show a warning when the Sheepnet driver is not installed, the X window version does.

If the 2010 builds dont work for you, try an older build from 2006.

There is a 32 bit IntelAMD package and a 64bit IntelAMD package from 2006.

The following configuration instructions are fairly basic, but should get you going.

Consult the SheepShaver for Mac OS X setup guide for more in-depth instructions (the emulator is set-up in a similar way in both host systems).

Click create to create a hard-file to which you will later install MacOS.

To accomodate a typical install of Mac OS 8 or 9, this should be more than 200 MB in size.

The Unix Root is a shared directory which you can use to transfer files between the emulated system and your host system.

This should probably not be left at default (the default setting is to share your entire system).

This is ESPECIALLY important if you are running SheepShaver as root, as in that case the emulator has read-write access to your entire system.

Leave Boot from as any and leave the disable CD-ROM driver box unchecked.

Note that fullscreen is only available in the full-screen build linked at the start of this article.

There is a bug in the SheepShaver GUI that prevents the Window refresh rate from being set in the fullscreen build.

Check the forum notes (at the download link) for a work-around.