In today's git master: $ ./qemu-system-sparc64 -M sun4u -m 2048 Bad ram offset ffffffff80000000 Aborted
$ ./qemu-system-sparc -M SS-20 -m 2048 Bad ram offset ffffffff80100000 Aborted Is there a way to give guest 2GiB+ RAM? The host seems to have enough: $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 6117668 4508320 1609348 0 7876 3286208 -/+ buffers/cache: 1214236 4903432 Swap: 6553440 0 6553440 $ uname -a Linux host 2.6.32.21-166.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 27 06:07:37 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux The configure script seems to realize that the host is 64 bit: ... QEMU_CFLAGS -Werror -m64 -Wtype-limits -Wold-style-definition -Wold-style-declaration -Wignored-qualifiers -Winit-self -Wformat-y2k -Wformat-security -Wnested-externs -Wempty-body -fstack-protector-all -I. -I$(SRC_PATH) -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wall -Wundef -Wendif-labels -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing LDFLAGS -Wl,--warn-common -m64 -g make make install install host CPU x86_64 host big endian no target list sparc-softmmu sparc64-softmmu ... $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: x86_64-redhat-linux Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --enable-plugin --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-ppl --with-cloog --with-tune=generic --with-arch_32=i686 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 4.4.4 20100630 (Red Hat 4.4.4-10) (GCC) -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/