From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58615) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUFga-0004xi-Cd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:08:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUFgY-0000cT-JR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:08:27 -0400 Received: from mail-vx0-f173.google.com ([209.85.220.173]:50082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QUFgY-0000c5-6Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:08:26 -0400 Received: by vxb37 with SMTP id 37so254100vxb.4 for ; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:08:25 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Felix Oxley Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:08:05 +0100 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: [Qemu-devel] QEMU suitable for mission critical applications? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Hello, I have a an (almost) EOL factory planning system running on Solaris Sparc which I would like to move to intel (and preferably virtualise) in order to avoid having to maintain the Sun system and backup system. The text based cobol application runs on this system: SunOS gplan 5.9 Generic_118558-35 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1500. It is not feasible to recompile the application to x86. Therefore I am looking for alternative solutions. I heard of Transitive QuickTransit, however since being purchased by IBM I do not believe this is being marketed. Would QEMU be suitable for this task? Would I be able to get commercial support? Thanks for your advice.