Update: I put my changes in these two forked repos:
https://github.com/paulsheer/qemu/ https://github.com/paulsheer/openbios/ I don't have more time to try get this stable, so I will be unsubscribing. Happy to answer any questions on my private email. Paul On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 12:25 AM Paul Sheer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I dumped the entire disk of a real Solaris 10 V210/V240 box into a qcow2 > image on Linux, > and then tried to boot it with qemu. > > The list of patches/fixes I needed to apply is very long --- beside a > bunch of code changes, there is also changing from SCSI to IDE and from > hme0 to e1000, getting the device mappings to work, and so on. > > It finally boots all the way through and starts its services and I can ssh > into it. > > However it doesn't seem to be stable. Within an hour it silently stops. > > Is anyone interested in this kind of work? > > Has anyone got this to run stable and under load? > > [[The only reason I keep this V210 around is to occasionally test some > software big-endian (not that easy these days with big-end boxes > disappearing 😂). But I panicked when I had to replace the motherboard > last week "...what if this box one-day becomes unrepairable?" -- hence my > experimenting with qemu.]] > > If anyone is interested then contact me directly on [email protected] > and I will share all the changes I made. > > Kind regards, > > Paul > > > >
