On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Mateusz Loskot <mate...@loskot.net> wrote: > On 12/01/11 12:32, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> >> On 12/01/11 11:57, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Mateusz Loskot<mate...@loskot.net> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 10/01/11 21:04, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Mateusz Loskot<mate...@loskot.net> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I suggest using QEMU git master. You could try the binaries >>>>>>> from my website: http://www.weilnetz.de/qemu/ >>>>>> >>>>>> Stefan, >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you very much! >>>>>> So far, I have tried to use versions of QEMU from Qemu Manager 0.7 >>>>>> as well as QEMU 0.13 from >>>>>> http://homepage3.nifty.com/takeda-toshiya/ >>>>>> but without any luck. I suppose it's because these versions do not >>>>>> have most recent OpenBIOS usable with SPARC. >>>>> >>>>> If you need Solaris, OpenBIOS is currently not your choice. >>>> >>>> I understand. >>>> >>>>> Have to use an OBP blob. >>>> >>>> Where can I find instructions on how to use it? >>>> >>>> Actually, I don't need Solaris but SPARC. >>>> So, even Linux for SPARC would do for me. >>>> >>>> I tried Debian 4.0 (etch) and Debian 5.0 (lenny) but with no luck. >>>> I think I confused the 32 vs 64 bit and SPARC flavors. >>> >>> 32 bit Debian 4.0 should work out of the box, also with OpenBIOS. >> >> OK, then I will stick to the Linux distribution for 32-bit SPARC >> and see if it works for me. > > If anyone is curious, I did a quick test on my over-engineered > configuration with Windows Vista running VirtualBox with Ubuntu 64-bit > as guest system running QEMU which is supposed to run Debian Etch 32-bit > SPARC. > > I run: > > $ qemu-img create -f qcow hda.img 20G > $ qemu-system-sparc -m 256 -hda hda.img -cdrom > /home/mloskot/software/debian/debian-40r8-sparc-netinst.iso -boot d > -localtime
Try -nographic . Also it's interesting to know whether you see something when you start qemu-system-sparc without any command line options. > and QEMU window appears but it remains black all the time. > The VirtualBox CPU is running 100%. > I can issue CTRL+ALT+{1|2|3} to switch QEMU consoles, but nothing related to > Debian booting appears. > > Here is screenshot: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/mloskot/5348626557/ > > I'm wondering if this is related to the VirtualBox+Linux host proxy. -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/