Here's a clean installation of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger PPC, fully updated and ready to be used with qemu.

I have also included a bootable image of the installation media, should you want to install your own clean virtual machine and/or physical hardware. Other images available seem to have been dumped in a way that made them not directly bootable, requiring you to burn it to a physical disc first. This one is directly bootable in a VM as a mounted ISO, which is probably more convenient.

The hard drive image size clocks in at around 4.8GB when unpacked, and is configured to be a 20GB drive. Make sure you have enough space available before you start and use this image.

The system automatically logs in to an admin account named Tim Cook with the password password (all lower-case). You can create a new admin user and delete this one if you want to use your own name.

All subsequent updates have already been applied, including all sixteen thousand JAVA updates. This image should be as up-to-date as you can make OS X Tiger, so fully ready to use.

The following command successfully boots for me under Ubuntu. If you're using a different host operating system like Windows, you'll have to adjust this command somewhat. Under Ubuntu I had to install the qemu-system-ppc as-well as openbios-ppc packages alongside the usual qemu-related packages. Please refer to your QEMU's documentation for your host operating system's specific requirements for running qemu-sytem-ppc or qemu-sytem-ppc64.

I hope this helps. Enjoy!

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