From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44833 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pd1sx-0007F9-MG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:41:16 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pd1sv-0003lq-PV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:41:15 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f180.google.com ([209.85.216.180]:33690) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pd1sv-0003lh-In for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:41:13 -0500 Received: by qyk29 with SMTP id 29so668250qyk.4 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2011 06:41:12 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4D2DBA74.6020801@loskot.net> References: <4D274D3C.9020008@loskot.net> <4D275849.8010205@mail.berlios.de> <4D2AEB4C.90903@loskot.net> <4D2B3D02.2000104@mail.berlios.de> <4D2B491A.7050007@loskot.net> <4D2D94C1.7080908@loskot.net> <4D2D9F51.3070007@loskot.net> <4D2DBA74.6020801@loskot.net> From: Artyom Tarasenko Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:40:52 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Linux as VirtualBox quest OS with QEMU running Solaris Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Mateusz Loskot Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > On 12/01/11 12:32, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >> >> On 12/01/11 11:57, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Mateusz Loskot >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 10/01/11 21:04, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Mateusz Loskot >>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I suggest using QEMU git master. You could try the binaries >>>>>>> from my website: http://www.weilnetz.de/qemu/ >>>>>> >>>>>> Stefan, >>>>>> >>>>>> Thank you very much! >>>>>> So far, I have tried to use versions of QEMU from Qemu Manager 0.7 >>>>>> as well as QEMU 0.13 from >>>>>> http://homepage3.nifty.com/takeda-toshiya/ >>>>>> but without any luck. I suppose it's because these versions do not >>>>>> have most recent OpenBIOS usable with SPARC. >>>>> >>>>> If you need Solaris, OpenBIOS is currently not your choice. >>>> >>>> I understand. >>>> >>>>> Have to use an OBP blob. >>>> >>>> Where can I find instructions on how to use it? >>>> >>>> Actually, I don't need Solaris but SPARC. >>>> So, even Linux for SPARC would do for me. >>>> >>>> I tried Debian 4.0 (etch) and Debian 5.0 (lenny) but with no luck. >>>> I think I confused the 32 vs 64 bit and SPARC flavors. >>> >>> 32 bit Debian 4.0 should work out of the box, also with OpenBIOS. >> >> OK, then I will stick to the Linux distribution for 32-bit SPARC >> and see if it works for me. > > If anyone is curious, I did a quick test on my over-engineered > configuration with Windows Vista running VirtualBox with Ubuntu 64-bit > as guest system running QEMU which is supposed to run Debian Etch 32-bit > SPARC. > > I run: > > $ qemu-img create -f qcow hda.img 20G > $ qemu-system-sparc -m 256 -hda hda.img -cdrom > /home/mloskot/software/debian/debian-40r8-sparc-netinst.iso -boot d > -localtime Try -nographic . Also it's interesting to know whether you see something when you start qemu-system-sparc without any command line options. > and QEMU window appears but it remains black all the time. > The VirtualBox CPU is running 100%. > I can issue CTRL+ALT+{1|2|3} to switch QEMU consoles, but nothing related to > Debian booting appears. > > Here is screenshot: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/mloskot/5348626557/ > > I'm wondering if this is related to the VirtualBox+Linux host proxy. -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/