Sounds like a hobby project. Like building a Wright Flyer. Solaris 8 branded containers work pretty well. I would think that a semiconductor company should be able to pay at least the minimal support to use them.
Time to move on. On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Rudie, Tony wrote: > Sun (when they were still Sun) came here 6 months ago and claimed they were > doing SPARC-Solaris IaaS cloud offerings, but I sure can’t find it on their > web site. > > - Tony Rudié > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Edward Ned Harvey > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:43 PM > To: 'Peter Galvin'; bbl...@bblisa. Org > Subject: Re: [BBLISA] How to Virtualize Sparc Solaris 8 > > Ahhh… The tricky part is not how to install solaris 8 … The tricky part is > emulating the sparc processor on intel hardware. Maybe I have to buy a > modern sparc system… Or more likely, I’m back to getting an old $150 box > from craigslist instead of a new $10k server that’ll be used for 20 minutes a > year … > > Does anybody offer Sparc cloud servers? Rent a box for 1 hour, pay Two > Dollars. That would be nice… I’ll have to poke around and see if I can find > somewhere now … > > I have seen some articles suggesting qemu for sparc emulation, and I’ve seen > as many articles saying how horribly it doesn’t work. I think I’ll try it at > least a little bit, so I can say I made the effort, didn’t leave that stone > unturned … > > > > From: Peter Galvin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 8:20 PM > To: Edward Ned Harvey; bbl...@bblisa. Org > Subject: Re: [BBLISA] How to Virtualize Sparc Solaris 8 > > Hi Ned, > > The “official” way is to install a Solaris 8 container within Solaris 10. > Note that this is a commercial solution – you have to pay for S8 support and > S10 support on the box on which you do this. > > --Peter > > > On 2/25/10 7:37 PM, "Edward Ned Harvey" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Working at semiconductor companies, it seems to be a common request, that we > need to obtain some sparc solaris 8 machine to run a memory compiler. In the > past, I’ve solved this by begging local IT depts for their garbage, and build > one of these machines. I’d very much like to improve this. > > Does anybody know of any way to create a sparc solaris 8 machine modern day? > Whether virtual or otherwise ... Preferably virtual. > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
