PPCVM

Portable PowerPC virtual machine and machine emulator by Ploos AS.

Status: M0 bootstrap. No guest OS boots yet.

Goals

• P0: MorphOS, AmigaOS 4.x, AROS PPC.
• P1: Linux PowerPC, OpenBSD/macppc, NetBSD/ofppc and macppc.
• First machine: Pegasos II (G4 / Marvell Discovery II), followed by Sam460ex, Sam460cr, compatible Power Mac, and later AmigaOne, Efika, Genesi ODW and Mirari T1042.
• Operating modes: desktop, headless/CI, and appliance (host Linux hidden).
• Faithful emulation first; optional JIT acceleration later.

M0 provides a tiny, testable 32-bit PowerPC instruction subset only; it does not claim machine, firmware, MMU, or operating-system compatibility.

Build and test

cmake -S . -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
cmake --build build
ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure
./build/ppcvm

Documentation

See architecture, roadmap and legal notes.