It WORKS!!! Thanks Mike!
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 2:45 PM John Chludzinski <john.chludzin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.* >> >> >>