Re: [Qemu-devel] Solaris SPARC guest on QEMU

[Artyom Tarasenko]

2009/9/14 Luis Freitas <address@hidden>:
> Hi,
>
>   I would like to use QEMU to run a guest Solaris 8/Sparc machine.

You are not alone. This topic pops every 1-2 years.

>   Seems that openbios is missing something that Solaris needs to complete the 
> boot process. I posted a entry on the qemu users forum but got no replies. 
> The boot seems to be failing after the initial boot program is loaded from 
> the disk, it seems unable to find the second stage boot program, so it is 
> probably something related to how the second stage should identify the boot 
> device.

The real Sun's OBP under qemu has the same problem. I guess it's not
the problem of OpenBIOS, but some bugs in SCSI/DMA/(IO)MMU layer.
It's not the identification of the boot device though. The first stage
reads something from a disk. It just fails to find some magic patterns
in what it gets.

>   Any sugestions?
>

I would try to approach from the other side. Some years ago Sun was
selling Solaris 8 (and 9) with sources. If you manage to obtain them,
you could see what the first stage actually does.