From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55552 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PdPYO-0002HU-Pr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:57:52 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PdPYF-0006q6-MU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:57:28 -0500 Received: from srv1.whshost.com ([174.121.90.50]:33053) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PdPYF-0006q1-FW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:57:27 -0500 Message-ID: <4D2F21C9.3080909@loskot.net> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:01:13 +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> <4D2AEB4C.90903@loskot.net> <4D2B3D02.2000104@mail.berlios.de> <4D2B491A.7050007@loskot.net> <4D2D94C1.7080908@loskot.net> <4D2D9F51.3070007@loskot.net> <4D2DBA74.6020801@loskot.net> <4D2DC710.2050206@loskot.net> <4D2DE1BE.7040701@loskot.net> <4D2E3A6C.5060809@loskot.net> <4D2EF2C7.5070307@loskot.net> In-Reply-To: <4D2EF2C7.5070307@loskot.net> 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: Michal Suchanek Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 13/01/11 12:40, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > On 13/01/11 10:13, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> On 13 January 2011 00:34, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >>> On 12/01/11 17:15, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >>>> On 12/01/11 16:48, Michal Suchanek wrote: >>>>> On 12 January 2011 16:21, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Thinking of future, could anyone estimate when it will be possible to >>>>>> boot Solaris 10 installation from ISO disks, if at all? >>>>>> To summary, what OS alternative for SPARC we have got apart from >>>>>> Debian >>>>>> which are known to work under QEMU? *BSD systems? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I can run NetBSD sparc install CD just fine. >>>>> >>>>> It supports sparc32 in the latest release. >>>> >>>> Thanks. Great, I'll try. >>>> >>>> One of the problems I found with Debian Etch is the package >>>> repositories >>>> are no longer supported and the installer >>>> can easily mess with those for Lenny. >>>> The only solution is to have all CDs for Etch available and run >>>> complete >>>> offline installation. >>>> >>>> I guess the NetBSD option is more up to date here. >>> >>> I have tried the recent NetBSD and it boots without problems, >>> however I can't configure networking to install via FTP/HTTP. >>> Strangely, I don't get question about DHCP. >> >> Yes, that's probably an issue with the sparc installer script. >> >> However, the sparccd has all the sets so you can easily install from >> the CD. >> >> Once installed you can set up dhclient. > > > Thanks for the hint. > Indeed, I managed to install the base system from CD and boot from QEMU > image. I performed post-install configuration according to the NetBSD > guide and I have dhclient=YET in /etc/rc.conf. Certainly, I mean, dhclient=YES > The only problem I find is that I'm unable to configure any > other networking than the user mode with QEMU network 10.0.2.0. Learned about the networking better and managed to connect (SSH) to my emulated NetBSD installation from host system (Windows Vista) thanks to ports redirection as explained here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Networking I should have read the docs more carefully. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org Member of ACCU, http://accu.org