From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36148 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PcFjE-0001Lb-EQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:16:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PcFjD-0004N6-2S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:16:00 -0500 Received: from srv1.whshost.com ([174.121.90.50]:46058) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PcFjC-0004N0-QM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:15:59 -0500 Message-ID: <4D2AEB4C.90903@loskot.net> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:19:40 +0000 From: Mateusz Loskot MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Linux as VirtualBox quest OS with QEMU running Solaris References: <4D274D3C.9020008@loskot.net> <4D275849.8010205@mail.berlios.de> In-Reply-To: <4D275849.8010205@mail.berlios.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Weil Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 07/01/11 18:15, Stefan Weil wrote: > Am 07.01.2011 18:28, schrieb Mateusz Loskot: >> 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. > > > Using a native windows version of qemu would be more reasonable. OK, makes sense to me. > There are no precompiled windows binaries of current qemu, > so you will have to compile them yourself (which is not difficult > once you have the correct mingw environment). Great. I think I should be able to do that. Which version of QEMU source code should I grab? Latest stable or development version from Git repo? Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org Member of ACCU, http://accu.org