From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DyRiw-0004nw-Uy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:04:16 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DyRit-0004lv-8X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:04:13 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DyRir-0004gX-RZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:04:10 -0400 Received: from [64.233.182.201] (helo=nproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DyRmB-0000Rr-VO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:07:36 -0400 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h2so151362nfe for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 02:55:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <41e41e7a0507290255f31684b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:55:47 +0200 From: Hetz Ben Hamo Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Solaris/SPARC binaries In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Reply-To: Hetz Ben Hamo , 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 You wrote: > Probably some heavy debugging could make a difference, but it seems that = general > interest for the emulator is low. >=20 > 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