On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 09:13, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> We only support the current major release, and thue previous major
> release for 2 years overlap. If we consider 11.x releases as major,
> then 11.3 went out of scope from QEMU's POV in Aug 2020, and thus
> we don't need to care about this code.
>
> More generally though, Solaris isn't even a platform we try to
> support at all is it ?
>
> We've never had any formal testing on it. Have we seen people filing
> bugs mentioning solaris in the last 5 years ? If QEMU works at all,
> I suspect it is merely by luck.

This last came up in June 2020:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/CAEgYsbE7s5hD+5ARj_Xt1D0ALDPDQx7uvocd5zRF6P=ezwx...@mail.gmail.com/

where somebody pointed out that illumos also doesn't (didn't?)
support openpty(). So we do have at least one or two people
who have tried to compile on Solaris and been enthusiastic
enough to post to the mailing list about it.

thanks
-- PMM

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