I'm trying to virtualize some physical SPARC Solaris machines (mix of Solaris 2.6, 8,9 & 10) and am using the latest Qemu 2.0.0 release (previousl worked with the various rc versions).
With some work, I can *build* a SparcStation5 install of Solaris 2.6 from the install media - provided I use the SS5 ROM - but that seems to be about the limit of what is achievable. Solaris > 2.6 seems to fail with a variety of errors and crashes. Solaris 8 looked good with cg3 but the Java install crashes with an internal hotspot error in the java virtual machine so never starts the real install. Using the Sparc64 to try and install Solaris 10 (or other versions) just crashes either Qemu itself or in the Solaris boot. I've tried changing the CPU selection but that seems to cause the switch between Qemu or Solaris crashing so it all looks pretty bad. Lots of searching suggests some people have something working but I've not found any magic formula or incantation of qemu which works for me. Can someone point me where I should look ? (the qemu documentation does not seem to cover Sparc since this is a much rarer case than the mainstream x86 emulation most people do) Happy to hear from Qemu-Sparc experts by e-mail too. I have some resources available for testing - hopefully if I get this running I can document it for other people to follow too. Thanks Jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All e-mail and telephone communications are subject to Suresafe Terms And Conditions and may be monitored, recorded and processed for the purposes contained therein and adherence to regulatory and legal requirements. Your further communication or reply to this e-mail indicates your acceptance of this. Any views or opinions expressed are the responsibility of the author and may not reflect those of Suresafe Protection Limited. Suresafe Protection Limited is registered in Scotland, number SC132827 The registered office is at 8 Kelvin Road, Cumbernauld, G67 2BA. Telephone: 01236 727792 Fax: 01236 723301 VAT Number: 556 6950 02 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
