Re: [Qemu-devel] Son 4.1.4

[Blue Swirl]

On 1/11/09, Olexander Danchuk <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Dear Paco!
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> I am writing you to as for help
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> Currently I need to run some Solaris 4.1.4 Sparc binaries and I have no
> hardware for this
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> So I am trying to use qemu to run sparc binaries. I have downloaded qemu
> 0.9.1 for Windows

Qemu does not support Solaris user emulation (execute single binaries
without a full system). It should be straightforward to implement it
but so far nobody has submitted any patches.

> base configuration is OK because I got unix command prompt
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> with sparc configuration I got some errors openbios-sparc32 absent
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> On the forum
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg03254.html
> I found out that you are experienced in this

You can download openbios-sparc32 from:
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/trunk/pc-bios/openbios-sparc32?revision=5262&root=qemu

But OpenBIOS is only used for emulating a complete system (devices,
RAM etc.), not for user emulation. The Sparc32 system emulator should
(in theory) be able to run Solaris, but so far this has not been
successful. I'm not sure what is the current status of Solaris, Qemu
and OpenBIOS have advanced a lot, but there have been no test reports.