From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54753) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpIR2-0007vY-99 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:23:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpIQz-0002O5-22 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:23:24 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:39263) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpIQy-0002Nq-Ow for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:23:20 -0400 References: <5B7054D9.9000209@gmx.com> <20180813083408.GG22904@redhat.com> From: Michele Denber Message-ID: <5B71DAA0.4040205@gmx.com> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:23:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU on Solaris List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Tribble , "=?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P._Berrang=c3=a9?=" Cc: Peter Maydell , QEMU Developers On 08-13-2018 6:08 AM, Peter Tribble wrote: > > > From the point of view of software such as qemu, divergences should be > slight > (there are going to be changes around packaging, shipped compilers, > but that's > true for different Linux distros in the same family). If it builds and > works on > Solaris, it'll build and work on one of the illumos distributions, and > vice versa. > (Although I note that's Solaris 10 mentioned above, which is now EOL, and > may be a little more problematic due to its age.) I'm still using Solaris 10 because upgrading to Solaris 11 is a giant pain, and they did away with the Java Desktop Environment GUI in 11. I really like the JDE. However, I believe that Solaris 10 programs should also work in Solaris 11. And it looks like Solaris 11 may be the end of the line anyway. > > You can certainly run illumos (such as OpenIndiana or Tribblix) in a > VM easily, > and freely. I can help with that. > > That's for x86, of course. Building on a SPARC platform is a different > matter > entirely. (Although that's one of the reasons some of us are > interested in qemu > in the first place.) That's exactly why I'm interested. I'd like to declare my independence form Microsoft and Windows but I still have a few important Windows programs that won't run on anything else. One can debate Solaris vx. Linux, but I've made my choice. - Michele