Hi,as a follow-up to a previous thread (http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-12/msg01089.html) the qemu-system-mips seems to work better than described above on a OpenSolaris/SPARC host systen when the following patch is applied: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-12/msg01379.html
Please consider applying the patch so the qemu-system-mips /Palle