From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42579 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PbG3b-00055U-DR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:24:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PbG3Z-0003Mc-7I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:24:55 -0500 Received: from srv1.whshost.com ([174.121.90.50]:60348) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PbG3Z-0003Lb-4P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:24:53 -0500 Received: from [82.110.183.162] (helo=[10.0.1.64]) by srv1.whshost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PbG3U-0008HY-Vb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:24:49 +0100 Message-ID: <4D274D3C.9020008@loskot.net> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:28:28 +0000 From: Mateusz Loskot MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Linux as VirtualBox quest OS with QEMU running Solaris List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, First, I'm sorry if my question does not belong here. The qemu-devel says it's "devel", but I can't find any qemu-users mailing list. I have no experience with QEMU. I've been using x86-only virtualization software like VirtualBox, VMWare and others. I need to run Solaris (SPARC) OS and I'd like to do it under QEMU. Due to hardware constraints, I'm wondering if the following setup would work at all: 1. Quad-core workstation with 16GB RAM with Windows Vista 64-bit as host OS 2. The Windows runs VirtualBox with Linux installed as guest OS. 3. The Linux guest OS runs QEMU 4. QEMU runs Solaris (SPARC) The Linux guest OS can be either Linux x86-32 or x86-64, depending which one is recommended and would perform better. Is this configuration reasonable? Would it work well? I have found the "QEMU on Winows" [1] but I'm not sure if this is an official project and if it's "production ready". I need to have fairly stable environment for building and testing software on SPARC architecture. [1] http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/ I'd appreciate any help and sugestions. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org Member of ACCU, http://accu.org