Ok, I'll do that. Still building.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 2:04 PM Mike Russo <m...@papersolve.com> wrote: > I really don't think CentOS with Fedora repos are going to work. I've > never been able to do that. What is the version of qemu included in the > CentOS 7.6 repositories? If it's not recent enough, I think you should just > compile from source following the instructions on the qemu wiki. It's not > that hard, I've definitely done it before. > > -- > > Michael Russo, Systems Engineer PaperSolve, Inc. 268 Watchogue Road Staten > Island, NY 10314 Your random quote for today: "Then you admit confirming > not denying you ever said that?" "NO! ... I mean Yes! WHAT?" "I'll put > `maybe.'" -- Bloom County > > > -----Original Message----- > *From*: John Chludzinski <john.chludzin...@gmail.com > <john%20chludzinski%20%3cjohn.chludzin...@gmail.com%3e>> > *To*: Mike Russo <m...@papersolve.com > <mike%20russo%20%3cm...@papersolve.com%3e>> > *Cc*: qemu-discuss@nongnu.org <qemu-discuss@nongnu.org > <%22qemu-disc...@nongnu.org%22%20%3cqemu-disc...@nongnu.org%3e>> > *Subject*: Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-sparc vs qemu-system-sparc > *Date*: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:50:24 -0400 > > Excuse me! I read these in reverse order. It's the Fedora 19 with the > older versions. > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 1:37 PM John Chludzinski < > john.chludzin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mike, first thanks for the response. > > I'm trying to use the Fedora repos to accomplish this, Fedora 19 in this > case. > I get this: > > Error: Package: 2:qemu-common-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 (Fedora-19) > Requires: libiscsi.so.1()(64bit) > Available: libiscsi-1.7.0-4.fc19.x86_64 (Fedora-19) > libiscsi.so.1()(64bit) > Installed: libiscsi-1.9.0-7.el7.x86_64 (@base) > ~libiscsi.so.2()(64bit) > Error: Package: 2:qemu-system-sparc-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 (Fedora-19) > Requires: libiscsi.so.1()(64bit) > Available: libiscsi-1.7.0-4.fc19.x86_64 (Fedora-19) > libiscsi.so.1()(64bit) > Installed: libiscsi-1.9.0-7.el7.x86_64 (@base) > ~libiscsi.so.2()(64bit) > > Is there a way to tell YUM to go ahead and update these packages? > (Assuming the newer version(s) is (are) backwards compatable?) > > BTW, I started by doing: > > sudo yum remove 'kvm*' > sudo yum remove 'qemu*' > sudo yum remove 'virt*' > > ... to clean the slate, so to speak. > > ---John > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 10:29 AM Mike Russo <m...@papersolve.com> wrote: > > You are trying to virtualize SPARC on x86 so you need qemu-system-sparc. > qemu-sparc would be for a user-mode emulation on a SPARC processor. I've > done this before on CentOS 7 and it should definitely be possible to > install qemu-system-sparc. yum should not have a problem figuring out the > dependencies - make sure you're all up to date and don't have any broken > packages. > > -- > > > Michael Russo, Systems Engineer > > PaperSolve, Inc. > > 268 Watchogue Road > > Staten Island, NY 10314 > > > Your random quote for today: > > It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, > > admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. > > -- Franklin D. Roosevelt > > > -----Original Message----- > *From*: John Chludzinski <john.chludzin...@gmail.com > <john%20chludzinski%20%3cjohn.chludzin...@gmail.com%3e>> > *To*: qemu-discuss@nongnu.org > *Subject*: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-sparc vs qemu-system-sparc > *Date*: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 17:43:46 -0400 > > I installed CentOS 7.6 then installed all things QEMU on my machine. I have > > a SPARC image I need to bringing up in a VM. I've been using > > *qemu-system-sparc*. > > > $ qemu-system-sparc -m 256 -hda solaris_v2-qemu_v2.2.0.disk -nographic > > -bios ./openbios-sparc32 > > > This is on a box on which I have Fedora-30 installed. > > > Can I use *qemu-sparc* to bring up my Solaris image: > > *solaris_v2-qemu_v2.2.0.disk* ? > > > If so, how? > > > BTW, *qemu-sparc* come with (on CentOS 7.6): > > > $ sudo yum install qemu* > > > *PS> I've tried to install qemu-system-sparc on my CentOS box but ended up > > in a never-ending whack-a-mole game of dependencies.* > > >