From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59497) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X3P3A-0001zJ-SF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 08:26:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X3P33-0006F0-CI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 08:26:40 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53400) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X3P33-0006Eu-5d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 08:26:33 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X3P31-0006JC-Vv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:26:31 +0200 Received: from dslb-094-218-042-069.pools.arcor-ip.net ([94.218.42.69]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:26:31 +0200 Received: from dl.soluz by dslb-094-218-042-069.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:26:31 +0200 From: dennis luehring Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:26:21 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] virtualize sparc developer workstation? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org i want to virtualize (under a linux x86 host) my noisy sparc workstation with the help of qemu and want to know if its possible to get an system image to run or what other options available for sparc virtualization im developing a low-traffic network communication software and sparc is one of my test platforms is the sparc emulation good enough for (low-traffic) network communication tests? my current system specs: -SUN Ultra 10 SPARC Workstation -384 MB RAM -Operating System: Solaris 10 November 2006 - SunOS Release 5.10 Generic_118833-33 64-bit -Desktop: CDE 1.6.3, X11 Version 6.6.2 -Compiler: SunStudio 12 - Sun C/C++ v5.9 2007/05/03 (and gcc v.3.4.6) -Workstation-Info: SUNW,Ultra-5_10;sparc;sun4u it would be nice to have the desktop running but i can compile & test my software fully on command line questions are: -can i boot an image of my machine into qemu? -what bios do i need - OpenBios, OpenBoot, original (how can i get this from my machine?) -use qemu git head or other version? thx for any help