From: Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@googlemail.com>
To: DG UX <dgunix@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Old DGUX Machine and Adaptec SCSI PCI Controller
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:41:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinyPdE5zy_QDTi6VybFU4Znfsh1bUk-RueDRD3D@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimvCAh8G-3Eoe+7hJJddBiqrKSP9Ek=3BGG-JPs@mail.gmail.com>
2010/7/25 DG UX <dgunix@gmail.com>:
> Hello all,
>
> We have an old DG/UX machine (2 actually), in production use (scary, I
> know).
> These days I am trying to virtualize/emulate those machines. As we cannot
> upgrade / reinstall the applications on a different platfrom, I am trying to
> boot it up (DD'ed all the drives as images) and use it as is.
> Attempts with Qemu are going O.K for now, got the bootloader working, but it
> doesn't load up the kernel/sytem, probably because it excpects the original
> Adaptec SCSI PCI Controller of the disks.
>
> Currently, these DGUX machines only support Qlogic and Adaptec, no IDE
> whatsoever and no LSI.
What sort of Adaptec and Qlogic? qemu emulates a ncr53c9x chip for
sparc & ppc machines, and I think there used to be an Adaptec card
with this chip.
> Any way Qemu will support anything like that?
>
> I got to know these DGUX machines very well, and know all the logs locations
> and sys/hw info. If you need anything, including system/boot image, let me
> know.
>
> Thanks a lot for reading,
>
> Adam
--
Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko
solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-26 9:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-25 13:08 [Qemu-devel] Old DGUX Machine and Adaptec SCSI PCI Controller DG UX
2010-07-25 19:39 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-26 9:43 ` Jes Sorensen
2010-07-26 9:45 ` DG UX
2010-07-29 19:38 ` DG UX
2010-07-30 4:55 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-26 9:41 ` Artyom Tarasenko [this message]
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