It would seem like if we ever wanted any serious movement on the SPARC from then qemu would be a great asset,
UltraSPARC II machines aren't too hard to find cheap (netra X1) but I would bet qemu would be quite a bit quicker considering the X1 is limited by PATA and PC133 memory. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 24, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Artyom Tarasenko via illumos-discuss <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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/182180/26830051-c017d896 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- 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
