From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXOmP-0002Sp-Ey for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:04:49 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GXOmM-0002Rz-Ss for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:04:49 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXOmM-0002Rw-OJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:04:46 -0400 Received: from [141.209.20.6] (helo=ob1.cmich.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GXOuD-0006eV-JM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:12:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:44:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Ishwar Rattan Subject: RE: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-sparc question? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Blue Swirl Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ >