[powerpc-discuss] Booting Solaris/PPC in qemu?

[Brian D. Horn]

Martin Bochnig wrote:
> Yonghong Yan wrote:
>   
>> I doubt qemu or pearPC will be useful based on current port. but one
>> approach that worth to try:
>>
>> The current port uses a virtual firmware; create a bootable binary of
>> VOF and let qemu-ppc boot from that, and it will bring the OF prompt
>> (hopefully), and from there solaris kernel can be loaded and booted.
>> but there probably lots of device issues here and it may turn out not
>> worth to go this way.
>>   
>>     
>
> Sure.
> I had the same idea a while ago. But it is not even possible to boot the 
> historic VOF (from Solaris 2.5/2.5.1/2.6) inside qemu or PearPC. Neither 
> VOF1.0, nor VOF 2.0 .
> For several reasons    :-(
>   
And those reasons are...?  It might be useful to know the deficiencies 
of Qemu for evaluation
purposes.
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