In late May of 2011, Brian Vandenberg queried this group about failures
he was having trying to install Solaris 8 SPARC 02/04 on a Qemu VM. The
interaction seemed to have ended with Blue Swirl indicating that Brian
should run with -d in_ascm,int and that the debug output would likely
be useful
We use the old Solaris/Sparc in a medical device we produce where I
work. Since we can't get new Sparc hardware any longer (many countries
no longer accept refurbished devices - so we can't sell this product
to them when we use refurbish IT parts) that is reasonable cost for our
application,
I've been able to install Solaris 8 using CDs on the Sparc Softmmu
client system. Kudos to those responsible for Sparc development!
I've been able to run a number of applications without problems on the
client machine. I noticed something odd, however, and have been trying
to isolate the
