On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Michael-John Turner <m...@mjturner.net> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 11:12:50AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> The document you linked is over 6 years old! sparc64 emulation is pretty >> usable already, I have installed the sparc64 netinst images that I built >> without any problems. > > Ah, I missed the date at the bottom of the page and didn't realise that! > I'm not sure that installing newer version of Solaris works yet though (at > least according to this[1] 2015 thread from Stack Exchange). Still, > possibly worth a try though.
Not yet. There is some progress, for instance, qemu-system-sparc64 can boot Linux since March 2013 [1], and NetBSD since 2014 [2]. One of the problems is that qemu-system-sparc64 emulates a workstation which has been never existed as a bare metal. Therefore it's not possible to use an existing firmware to boot Solaris and Solaris for 64 bit SPARC machines is very picky about the firmware. But Mark Cave-Ayland is working on OpenBIOS (in the mean time it can already boot FreeBSD) and I work on sun4v emulation which could re-use Firmware from the OpenSPARC project (its Firmware is indeed Solaris-compatible). So, stay tuned. 1. http://tyom.blogspot.de/2013/03/debiansparc64-wheezy-under-qemu-how-to.html 2. http://tyom.blogspot.de/2014/08/upstream-qemu-can-run-netbsdsparc64.html -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko SPARC and PPC PReP under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu
