From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54798 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PcLEU-00017L-E5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:08:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PcLEN-0001mp-VM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:08:33 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:55915) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PcLEN-0001lc-Hx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:08:31 -0500 Message-ID: <4D2B3D02.2000104@mail.berlios.de> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:08:18 +0100 From: Stefan Weil MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Linux as VirtualBox quest OS with QEMU running Solaris References: <4D274D3C.9020008@loskot.net> <4D275849.8010205@mail.berlios.de> <4D2AEB4C.90903@loskot.net> In-Reply-To: <4D2AEB4C.90903@loskot.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Mateusz Loskot Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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