From: Felix Oxley <felix@oxley.org>
To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU suitable for mission critical applications?
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:00:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinnh8Lmdvy==yw72Xj6B+isnMGz7g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTina9HXkpnWQJVnqAaMq+dXbwCdZkQ@mail.gmail.com>
Thank you all for your responses.
It appears that it would be wise to continue to maintain Sun hardware.
On 12 June 2011 22:51, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Felix Oxley <felix@oxley.org> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Right.
>>
>>> Would QEMU be suitable for this task? Would I be able to get commercial support?
>>
>> I think it will be difficult to get commerical support for QEMU SPARC.
>> How well QEMU runs sun4u I'm not sure.
>
> Not very well yet. For running a single application, it could be
> possible to develop a Solaris user emulator to run only the
> applications under x86 Solaris.
>
>> Personally, I would leave it running untouched since there isn't a
>> low-risk solution. Perhaps others on the list have more information
>> but I wanted to reply in case no one else does so you'll at least have
>> something to go by.
>
> Used Sparc hardware is not very expensive either.
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-08 10:08 [Qemu-devel] QEMU suitable for mission critical applications? Felix Oxley
2011-06-08 11:19 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-06-12 21:51 ` Blue Swirl
2011-06-13 9:00 ` Felix Oxley [this message]
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