Thanks Ben! Well I have a few higher end SPARC boxes that will probably suffice for testing. Does it matter which version of Solaris 10 I am running? I think 11/05 sounds familiar like the release I might be running, yet it has been a while, and I do not recall.
uname reports that I am running: SunOS 5.10 Generic_118833-24 sun4u sparc Is that a new enough release? I'll be happy to try it all out and maybe I can help with the key mappings. Is there a binary SPARC release I can download to quickly get started or would I need to compile from source? If there is a binary release please do point me to it and I'll get started soon, if I have to compile from source and it is not a trivial build process I might not be able to jump on it as fast as I'd like to. So far I have QEMU running on a Sol10 x86 box running the Oracle RH Linux Distro and everything seems to work fine so far. I downloaded a binary QEMU package though and did not compile it from source. Thx! Regards, Tom Ben Taylor wrote: >>Hey Ben, >> >>Does the SPARC port really work? I thought I have >>seen mixed comments on this? >> >> > >It should. I was running Solaris Express, DamnSmallLinux, >and Win98SE in QEMU VM's last spring on a 4 >socket 1.8Ghz US-IV+ Solaris 9 box with 16G RAM. :-) > >What you may be hearing about is the Sparc Guests. >Those are getting better, but QEMU can still not boot >a Solaris Sparc guest yet. If we ever find anyone with >some forth background who can work with the OpenBios >folks, we might get there. > > > >>I would love to be able to run QEMU on SPARC and >>emulate x86 Operating Systems. In fact right now I >>have an application I want to evaluate that >>is native to Ubuntu Linux (or however it is spelled) >>and at first thought I figured I would try to run it on >>SPARC using BrandZ yet it looks like the >>SPARC/BrandZ port is not mature enough >>yet. >> >> > >I'll have to keep my eyes open about that. > > > >>Then I thought about QEMU running on SPARC yet to be >>honest I thought I had also heard that the QEMU/SPARC >>port was not mature enough either? >> >> > >I don't think many people do it. The emulation on a Sparc >system a user is likely to have is gonna be slow. > >However, the code base is so similar, and the only true >differences between sparc and x86 is in the math libraries >for 8 and 9. 10 doesn't have any special features needed >for sparc or x86. > > > >>s SPARC/QEMU ready for prime time, or should I not >>bother? This project is one where I do not have a lot >>of time to be trail blazing yet if the >>SPARC QEMU port works well I could give it a try. >> >> > >"Well" probably depends on your Sparc host. I have >run DSL and Win98SE on a 2x450 Mhz U60 with >2GB of ram, and it's "useable". Installing Solaris Express >on that box was a day job. That was painful.... > >A 900-1200 Mhz US-III (duals better) runs ok, and I was >fortunate enough last spring to have access to a 1.8Ghz >US-IV+ 4-way where I fleshed out the Sparc port on >Solaris 9, so I'm pretty confident in the Sparc Hosting >of Qemu. The real annoyance is going to be the hot-keys >for getting into and out of the monitor on Sparc. > > > >>I might also be able to figure out the key mapping >>issues for you . . . >> >> > >Thank you. That would be great for the community. > >Let me know if you have any issues. > >Regards, > >Ben >-- >This message posted from opensolaris.org >_______________________________________________ >qemu-discuss mailing list >qemu-discuss at opensolaris.org >http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/qemu-discuss/attachments/20071211/c310e83e/attachment.html>
