>> The *other* thing that would be enormously useful would be figuring out >> if we can boot any opensolaris on a qemu system running on any of >> illumos-x86, MacOS, or Linux. (Ideally it shouldn’t matter that much, >> but I don’t know how easy it is to use qemu SPARC emulations on >> different systems.) While this would be quite slow, I doubt it would >> be a lot slower than some actual SPARC hardware, when used with a very >> fast modern x86 CPU on the host. :-)
Well, the emulated 32-bit CPUs are in fact faster than the real ones from the SPARCstation era. The emulated 64 bit SPARC machines are slower than the physical ones. But you are right, they are not a lot slower. > There is hacking to run Solaris 2.6 sparc on qemu. > http://brezular.com/2012/02/17/installation-solaris-2-6-sparc-on-qemu-part2-solaris-installation/ It's not limited to Solaris 2.6. Most of the other 32-bit versions can boot as well. The list of supported versions is here: http://tyom.blogspot.com/2009/12/solaris-under-qemu-how-to.html Since yesterday Solaris 9 can boot up to the single user mode under OpenBIOS as well. But I'm not sure whether the patch makes it into the upcoming QEMU 2.2 release. Artyom -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko SPARC and PPC PReP under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
