[Qemu-devel] Sparc Emulation

[Qemu-devel] Sparc Emulation

[Andreas Sotirakopoulos]

Hi,

I am not sure I should be posting this here but the forum is down and
I am struggling for days to get this right.

I am trying to use the qemu sparc emulation but I have encountered a
problem.  Although it boots in a console I have not the ability to
mount any devices (specially my cdrom), in fact there are very few
devices present, only three tty, so as to be able to run some sparc
binary files I need to. Furthermore I have noticed that the /proc
directory is missing and I suspect that that is what causes this
problem.

Is it possible to overcome such a problem? Do I do something wrong?

Thanks in advance for your response.
Sotirakopoulos Andreas

Re: [Qemu-devel] Sparc Emulation

[Blue Swirl]

On 11/22/07, Andreas Sotirakopoulos <sotirakopoulos@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure I should be posting this here but the forum is down and
> I am struggling for days to get this right.
>
> I am trying to use the qemu sparc emulation but I have encountered a
> problem.  Although it boots in a console I have not the ability to
> mount any devices (specially my cdrom), in fact there are very few
> devices present, only three tty, so as to be able to run some sparc
> binary files I need to. Furthermore I have noticed that the /proc
> directory is missing and I suspect that that is what causes this
> problem.
>
> Is it possible to overcome such a problem? Do I do something wrong?

It seems you are using the sparc-test initrd setup, which is not a
full system as you have noticed. Instead you should create a disk
image with qemu-img and find a bootable install CD image, then install
Linux with these like:
qemu-system-sparc -boot d -hda hd.img -cdrom debian-31r1-sparc-binary-1.iso

Or if you only need to run a few Linux binaries, then you could try
the user emulator instead:
qemu-sparc -L ../qemu-tests/usr/local/gnemul/qemu-sparc ./ls