Re: [Qemu-devel] 0.60 Solaris 9 problems.

[Juergen Keil]

Simon H wrote

> I managed to then install Solaris 9.0 but for some
> reason on certain long operations like:
> find / -name <blah>

Works for me, running qemu on a Solaris 9 x86 host and running 
a Solaris 10 x86 guest os.


> I get a mostly black emulator screen, usually with
> some part of the desktop panel still visible.
> I have to stop the emulator at that stage.

Is that while a GUI (X11) is running in the QEMU emulator?
Which GUI, CDE or Gnome?  Which video card driver are you using
with the X11 server?

Is it perhaps the X11 screen saver, that is activated inside
the guest os after 15(?) minutes?.


Can you reproduce the problem on the text console, by choosing
"command line login" from the "options" menu in the initial
dtlogin login screen, logging in as user root (or some ordinary
user) on the text console?


> I have used the
> detected defaults for all devices, pressing f2 most of
> the way through the install.  There was some wierdness
> with partitioning the disk, I had to quit out of the
> installer, run fdisk, and then re-run the installer.
> I've also not had much luck with admintool or the
> recommended admin console program, but then since I've
> never installed Solaris 9 before that could just be
> Solaris wierdness, (ie off-topic).

The java virtual machine included in Solaris x86 does not work
for me.  When I start "java", I get:

    % java
    Error occurred during initialization of VM
    java.lang.InternalError
    
Tracing system calls (actually tracing signals) using "truss -t!all java"
shows that the JVM gets a SIGSEGV signal when trying to access memory at
address 0x0000001F, and crashes with the internal error after that.  I'm
not sure if that's a bug in the java VM or a QEMU x86 CPU emulator bug.


Sometimes a working java VM is needed at Solaris x86 installation time.
For example with Solaris 10 x86, when you have a system with lots of memory,
then a gui installer written in java is used, but it crashes with the above
"InternalError" message.

The solaris admin console (smc) also needs a working java VM.