Hi, I just sent a fair amount of time trying to figure out problems with the qemu build and resulting binary. The first problem (which is no longer a problem due to the shell OpenSolaris uses) was that `sh' was used in rules.mak to perform commands -- I had a /bin/sh that was not bash-compatible. That's a minor problem. The more-serious problem was that once qemu was built, it would die almost immediately, complaining about smbus-eeprom not being an I2C device. That problem appears to be due to an issue with gcc's use of the Solaris native linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) -- the linker is not including all .o's in the .a's, even though the --whole-archive switch was passed to it. The linker team is looking into that problem right now, but in the meantime, manually performing the link step by specifying all the required .o's yields a usable qemu executable.
Thanks, --S
