[Qemu-devel] Son 4.1.4

[Qemu-devel] Son 4.1.4

[Olexander Danchuk]

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Dear Paco!

I am writing you to as for help

Currently I need to run some Solaris 4.1.4 Sparc binaries and I have no
hardware for this

So I am trying to use qemu to run sparc binaries. I have downloaded qemu
0.9.1 for Windows

base configuration is OK because I got unix command prompt

with sparc configuration I got some errors openbios-sparc32 absent

On the forum http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg03254.htmlI
found out that you are experienced in this

Please, help me

Truly yours,

Oleksandr



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Thank you for your time and I look forward for your mails

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Son 4.1.4

[Blue Swirl]

On 1/11/09, Olexander Danchuk <olexanderdanchuk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Paco!
>
>
>
> I am writing you to as for help
>
> Currently I need to run some Solaris 4.1.4 Sparc binaries and I have no
> hardware for this
>
> So I am trying to use qemu to run sparc binaries. I have downloaded qemu
> 0.9.1 for Windows

Qemu does not support Solaris user emulation (execute single binaries
without a full system). It should be straightforward to implement it
but so far nobody has submitted any patches.

> base configuration is OK because I got unix command prompt
>
> with sparc configuration I got some errors openbios-sparc32 absent
>
> On the forum
> http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg03254.html
> I found out that you are experienced in this

You can download openbios-sparc32 from:
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/trunk/pc-bios/openbios-sparc32?revision=5262&root=qemu

But OpenBIOS is only used for emulating a complete system (devices,
RAM etc.), not for user emulation. The Sparc32 system emulator should
(in theory) be able to run Solaris, but so far this has not been
successful. I'm not sure what is the current status of Solaris, Qemu
and OpenBIOS have advanced a lot, but there have been no test reports.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Son 4.1.4

[Laurent Desnogues]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/11/09, Olexander Danchuk <olexanderdanchuk@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Currently I need to run some Solaris 4.1.4 Sparc binaries and I have no
>> hardware for this
>>
>> So I am trying to use qemu to run sparc binaries. I have downloaded qemu
>> 0.9.1 for Windows
>
> Qemu does not support Solaris user emulation (execute single binaries
> without a full system). It should be straightforward to implement it
> but so far nobody has submitted any patches.

I think the original poster was wrongly calling Solaris something that
is SunOS.  IIRC SunOS was a BSD derivative (while Solaris was
based on SystemV).  Doesn't qemu already have support for BSD
on SPARC?


Laurent

Re: [Qemu-devel] Son 4.1.4

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <761ea48b0901110416x3c7b8e14yfa1e1e0881935704@mail.gmail.com>
            "Laurent Desnogues" <laurent.desnogues@gmail.com> writes:
: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com> wrote:
: > On 1/11/09, Olexander Danchuk <olexanderdanchuk@gmail.com> wrote:
: >>
: >> Currently I need to run some Solaris 4.1.4 Sparc binaries and I have no
: >> hardware for this
: >>
: >> So I am trying to use qemu to run sparc binaries. I have downloaded qemu
: >> 0.9.1 for Windows
: >
: > Qemu does not support Solaris user emulation (execute single binaries
: > without a full system). It should be straightforward to implement it
: > but so far nobody has submitted any patches.
: 
: I think the original poster was wrongly calling Solaris something that
: is SunOS.  IIRC SunOS was a BSD derivative (while Solaris was
: based on SystemV).  Doesn't qemu already have support for BSD
: on SPARC?

Which version SunOS?  SunOS 3.x and 4.x were basically BSD kernels
with increasing levels of SysV bolted o n.  SunOS 5.x (part of Solaris
2.x) was the opposite.

Warner

Re: [Qemu-devel] Son 4.1.4

[Jamie Lokier]

M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : I think the original poster was wrongly calling Solaris something that
> : is SunOS.  IIRC SunOS was a BSD derivative (while Solaris was
> : based on SystemV).  Doesn't qemu already have support for BSD
> : on SPARC?
> 
> Which version SunOS?  SunOS 3.x and 4.x were basically BSD kernels
> with increasing levels of SysV bolted o n.  SunOS 5.x (part of Solaris
> 2.x) was the opposite.

Do any SunOs 3.x or 4.x installations run on qemu?

-- Jamie