Marty Brewer wrote:
> Hi all,
> We have a compiled app (no source) running on Solaris 8 SPARC.
> The hard drive is dying.
>
> I'm trying on Virtual Box with Solaris 10 x86 (SPARC DVD won't boot)
> The app reports "permission denied" (running as root).
>
> IS there much chance of it working?
If it's a compiled SPARC binary, there's zero chance of it working
directly on x86, either on real hardware or in VirtualBox - you'd need
to recompile the source into an x86 binary, get a copy of Transitive
to convert the binary, or use a SPARC emulator (qemu is the only one
I've heard of, I don't know how well it works).
If it was a Java binary, or some other platform neutral format, then
it should work, but C/C++/assembly/etc. code compiles to CPU-specific
machine code.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
