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Been doing this with SheepShaver for years. Audio works perfectly. Runs Mac OS 7, 8, or 9. Is able to share your Mac’s internet connection. It can run in full screen mode on your Mac, without a black border or anything. It’s fantastic. Best of all, you can create a shared folder with the host computer, so files you download through your modern browser from places like Macintosh Garden can be accessed immediate in the virtualized vintage OS. Works great the other way around too. SheepShaver + MacOS9 comes in really handy when I’m feeling nostalgic for SimCity 2000.
SheepShaver is kind of rough around the edges -- booting to the desktop and running some basic applications will work, but a lot of more advanced applications (games, development tools, Macsbug) will behave incorrectly or crash the emulator. More importantly, the codebase is an ancient mess, and has been essentially unmaintained for 10+ years. qemu is a much more viable approach going forward.
SheepShaver segfaults in the CPU emulator before running anything for me -- no matter which configure options I pass to it. It's an absolute nonstarter.
Meanwhile, qemu works a treat.
Wrote a sheepshaver how-to recently because I always have trouble finding links to everything: http://blog.eamonnmr.com/2018/10/os9-on-ubuntu/