Re: [Qemu-devel] Linux as VirtualBox quest OS with QEMU running Solaris

[Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>]

Am 10.01.2011 12:19, schrieb Mateusz Loskot:
> On 07/01/11 18:15, Stefan Weil wrote:
>> Am 07.01.2011 18:28, schrieb Mateusz Loskot:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> First, I'm sorry if my question does not belong here. The qemu-devel
>>> says it's "devel", but I can't find any qemu-users mailing list.
>>>
>>> I have no experience with QEMU. I've been using x86-only virtualization
>>> software like VirtualBox, VMWare and others.
>>>
>>> I need to run Solaris (SPARC) OS and I'd like to do it under QEMU.
>>> Due to hardware constraints, I'm wondering if the following setup
>>> would work at all:
>>>
>>> 1. Quad-core workstation with 16GB RAM with Windows Vista 64-bit
>>> as host OS
>>> 2. The Windows runs VirtualBox with Linux installed as guest OS.
>>> 3. The Linux guest OS runs QEMU
>>> 4. QEMU runs Solaris (SPARC)
>>>
>>> The Linux guest OS can be either Linux x86-32 or x86-64,
>>> depending which one is recommended and would perform better.
>>>
>>> Is this configuration reasonable?
>>> Would it work well?
>>>
>>> I have found the "QEMU on Winows" [1] but I'm not sure if this is an
>>> official project and if it's "production ready".
>>> I need to have fairly stable environment for building and
>>> testing software on SPARC architecture.
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate any help and sugestions.
>>
>>
>> Using a native windows version of qemu would be more reasonable.
>
> OK, makes sense to me.
>
>> There are no precompiled windows binaries of current qemu,
>> so you will have to compile them yourself (which is not difficult
>> once you have the correct mingw environment).
>
> Great. I think I should be able to do that.
>
> Which version of QEMU source code should I grab?
> Latest stable or development version from Git repo?
>
> Best regards,

I suggest using QEMU git master. You could try the binaries
from my website: http://www.weilnetz.de/qemu/

Kind regards,
Stefan Weil