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

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

On 12 January 2011 16:21, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz@loskot.net> wrote:
> On 12/01/11 14:40, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Mateusz Loskot<mateusz@loskot.net>
>>  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<mateusz@loskot.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/01/11 21:04, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Mateusz Loskot<mateusz@loskot.net>
>>>>>>> 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 .
>
> Here is what I get, no output, CPU runs 100% for long -40-sminutes
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mloskot/5349339628/
>
> I can use CTRL-a to access terminal commands and monitor
>
>
> In the meantime, I also tested Debian Etch with QEMU 0.13 running directly
> under Windows Vista. I installed QEMU 0.13 from binaries downloadable using
> Qemu Manager (http://www.davereyn.co.uk/).
> (I'm having problems with Stefan Weil's binaries as explained in this
> thread, even if I can run them, the qemu-img.exe behaves strange not
> accepting disk sizes).
>
> Anyway, It looks Debian booted properly:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mloskot/5348739869/
>
> I've just passed partitions formatting step, fingers crossed.
>
>> Also it's interesting to know whether you see
>> something when you start qemu-system-sparc without any command line
>> options.
>
> Here is what I get
>
> $ qemu-system-sparc
> qemu: Too much memory for this machine: 384, maximum 256
>
> By the way, I run
>
> $ qemu -version
> QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.3 (qemu-kvm-0.12.3), Copyright (c) 2003-2008
> Fabrice Bellard
>
>
> Thinking of future, could anyone estimate when it will be possible to
> boot Solaris 10 installation from ISO disks, if at all?
> To summary, what OS alternative for SPARC we have got apart from Debian
> which are known to work under QEMU? *BSD systems?
>

I can run NetBSD sparc install CD just fine.

It supports sparc32 in the latest release.

HTH

Michal