The programs are functionally the same when built from source IFF they take care of doing the correct network calls to do the Endian conversion, but you will not get binary compatability with any container on an x86 based host. The ABI is different and the endianness is different (not to mention all the subtleties about floating point, integer units, registeyrs, MMU, and memory page sizes)
(even database internals for integer/floating point representation would have to be considered carefully. Unless some sort of sane data structure marshalling is done, what is stored on one would be incomprehensible to the other) So, yes, Solaris will work, but you can't pretend you are a SPARC by any standard means that I'm aware of. Christopher Webber wrote: > Isn't there some sort of Solaris 8 container thing? > > http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/containers/index.jsp > > Not sure it will help but... > > -- cwebber > > On Feb 25, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Edward Ned Harvey 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
