From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52661) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QW30r-0006zV-Pd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:00:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QW30p-0002VB-VV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:00:49 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f45.google.com ([209.85.212.45]:39797) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QW30p-0002Uw-Ll for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 05:00:47 -0400 Received: by vws17 with SMTP id 17so3994253vws.4 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:00:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Felix Oxley Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:00:26 +0100 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU suitable for mission critical applications? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Blue Swirl Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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 wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrot= e: >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Felix Oxley 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. >> =A0How 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. =A0Perhaps 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. >