> Joerg Schilling wrote: > > >Mika Borner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Innobox announced today, that their virtualisation > solution will be released under GPL. > >> > >>http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/News > >> > >>There is no support for OpenSolaris X86 yet, but I > guess porting the code from linux to opensolaris > should not be too difficult. > >> > >> > > I'm not so optimistic about that, see the build > instructions: > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux%20build%20instruc > tions > > Required tools include > > * *as86* (real mode assembler, usually part of > the /dev86/ or > /bin86/ package) > * *bcc* (Bruce Evans C Compiler; often part of the > /dev86/ package) > > Are those available for (or easily portable to) > Solaris x86?
I'd never heard of bcc or as86 (both by the same guy) and did a little research and found the source. Took a whack at it late last night, and got past about 80% of the code compiling straight, once I changed the Makefile to use /bin/bash as the SHELL and the other scripts to use GNU versions of commands (ggrep, gegrep, gawk). The current supporter is heavily linux leaning. I got stuck on the elksemu, before I had to quit. > QEMU - on the other hand - is happy with gcc and > binutils alone, which > are widely available for almost any platform. > > > > > >The code is written in C++ (most liely g++ :-() and > >I cannot see a real source being available for > download yet. > > > >If the C++ code has been written nicely and if there > is no dependency > >to a specific compiler and to a C++ ABI, someone > would need to get a > >source first and then check where the dependencies > to the Host OS are. > > > > > > Unfortunately does it appear to depend on Bruce Evans > C Compiler. > Worse, not only on a special compiler, but even on a > special "as". That compiler and assembler, AFAICT, is used to setup the bios and such. BOCH uses it too, as well as a host of other free programs (etherboot, etc). Ben This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
