On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 02:28:16PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > I see qemu-system-sparc installed in fedora 18, so I'm now > curious: > > If I DDed the disk from an old sun workstation we have > could I go into virt-manager and create a new virtual > machine pointing at that disk image and saying it is > a sparc architecture? > > Or is it still more complicated than that to get > anything other than x86 architectures to run? (Yes, > I know it would be slow even if it did work :-).
You may as well try it, but I think you'd be extraordinarily fortunate if it actually worked. As Cole said, it's unlikely that libvirt will be able to drive qemu-system-sparc correctly so your best bet would be to use the direct command line, ie: qemu-system-sparc -M <something> -m <something> -hda /path/to/disk.img If this doesn't work (and as I said I'd be surprised if it did) you will need to contact the qemu upstream community to work out what's going wrong. http://wiki.qemu.org/MailingLists Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
