RE: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question?

[Ishwar Rattan <ishwar@pali.cps.cmich.edu>]

Well here is the situation. Dept had a lab with SPARC
based Solaris machines that were phased out in summer
(over my objections). I needed the environment to teach
first computer archt course with some assembly language
thrown in. Intel processor assembly requires a much
bigger effort (on part of students) which defeats the puprpose
of the course. So, I thought that I could put together
the SPARC back, if I am able to boot a SPARC version of
Linux (with gcc, gas, text-editor and networking) under
qemu. Hence the barrage of questions. GUI is a non-issue.

-ishwar

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Blue Swirl wrote:

>> Is it possible to boot the iso image
>>   debian-31r3-sparc-netinst.iso
>> 
>> in qemu-system-sparc? What about other
>> Linux distributions?
>
> In serial console mode it should boot and the install should finish (Qemu CVS 
> version), at least on 3.1r1 full CD.
>
> I made some tests a while ago, here are the results:
>
> Aurora 1.0 graphical: X starts
> Aurora 2.0 graphical: X starts, partitioning fails
> Aurora 2.1 graphical: installer thinks CD is not correct
> Debian 3.1 R1 serial: install complete
> Gentoo 1.4 RC5 graphical: shell prompt, keyboard fast repeat
> Gentoo 2004.1 graphical: shell prompt, keyboard fast repeat, hangs
> NetBSD 1.6.1 graphical: loader can't find kernel
> NetBSD 2.1 graphical: loader can't find kernel
> NetBSD 3.0 graphical: loader can't find kernel
> Red Hat 4.2 Zoot graphical: Cannot open /dev/kbd, keyboard doesn't work
> SuSE 7.1 graphical: X starts, mouse doesn't work
>
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