Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Solaris/SPARC binaries

[Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh@gmail.com>]

You wrote:

> Probably some heavy debugging could make a difference, but it seems that general
> interest for the emulator is low.
> 
> I haven't tried Solaris for Sparc V8, it would be interesting to hear the
> results.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one who really wants
to use Solaris 7/8/9/10 Sparc binaries with your Sparc emulation part,
and I hear it a lot from other people I show them QEMU - whether they
are writing open source software and want to test it on SPARC, or some
(very) small companies who would want to port their software to SPARC,
but the steep price of SPARC based machine scares them.

Look what happend to QEMU: when it was at version 0.4.x (if I recall
correctly) and it was only able to run wine on non X86 machines, the
interest in the project was pretty low (I know because I follow this
project for quite a lot of time). Once Fabrice added System level
emulation and the features to boot and use other OS's (Linux, BSD,
WIndows, Solaris/X86, OS/2) - the interest in QEMU jumped through the
roof, and you can hear the word "QEMU" almost everywhere.

Thanks,
Hetz