From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EzTNm-0008Jk-BH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:34:54 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EzTNj-0008HB-QN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:34:53 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EzTNj-0008H4-GO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:34:51 -0500 Received: from [144.140.82.153] (helo=omta01ps.mx.bigpond.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EzTRi-00065p-Ia for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:38:58 -0500 Received: from [10.1.1.5] (really [139.168.160.222]) by omta01ps.mx.bigpond.com with ESMTP id <20060119063216.MWS19070.omta01ps.mx.bigpond.com@[10.1.1.5]> for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:32:16 +0000 From: Peter Firmstone Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:27:26 +1000 Message-Id: <1137652046.8132.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Solaris Linux x86 binary compatibility Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hi, You may have heard of Janus, the Solaris x86 compatibility layer to run x86 linux binaries. It is now renamed brandz and is available at the OpenSolaris web site: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz Basically it has the ability to create a linux runtime environment using linux system libraries in a Solaris container. It only works on Solaris x86. It might be possible to create a similar linux x86 runtime environment on Solaris SPARC using QEMU's Linux user space emulator. Any thoughts? Regards, Peter.