From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37504 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PcFmR-0002Z3-Ce for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:19:20 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PcFmP-00050B-Vz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:19:19 -0500 Received: from srv1.whshost.com ([174.121.90.50]:47312) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PcFmP-000507-LS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:19:17 -0500 Message-ID: <4D2AEC12.3060808@loskot.net> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:22:58 +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> In-Reply-To: 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: Blue Swirl Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 07/01/11 20:37, Blue Swirl wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> 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. > > A forum exists: > http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/ Good to know. Though, I may be old, but I prefer mailing list than Web-based forums. Anyway, if I understand it well, there is nothing wrong with posting non-development questions to qmenu-devel, is it? >> 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? > > Sparc32 Solaris can run with recent QEMU: > http://tyom.blogspot.com/ Fantastic! > Sparc64 is not ready yet. I can stick to 32-bit. >> 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. > > Someone should step up as Win32 maintainer, also making Windows builds > available. I can't help, I regret. Thanks for help! Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org Member of ACCU, http://accu.org