Re: [Qemu-devel] Linux as VirtualBox quest OS with QEMU running Solaris

[Stefan Weil]

Am 07.01.2011 18:28, schrieb Mateusz Loskot:
> Hi,
>
> First, I'm sorry if my question does not belong here. The qemu-devel
> says it's "devel", but I can't find any qemu-users mailing list.
>
> I have no experience with QEMU. I've been using x86-only virtualization
> software like VirtualBox, VMWare and others.
>
> I need to run Solaris (SPARC) OS and I'd like to do it under QEMU.
> Due to hardware constraints, I'm wondering if the following setup
> would work at all:
>
> 1. Quad-core workstation with 16GB RAM with Windows Vista 64-bit
>    as host OS
> 2. The Windows runs VirtualBox with Linux installed as guest OS.
> 3. The Linux guest OS runs QEMU
> 4. QEMU runs Solaris (SPARC)
>
> The Linux guest OS can be either Linux x86-32 or x86-64,
> depending which one is recommended and would perform better.
>
> Is this configuration reasonable?
> Would it work well?
>
> I have found the "QEMU on Winows" [1] but I'm not sure if this is an 
> official project and if it's "production ready".
> I need to have fairly stable environment for building and
> testing software on SPARC architecture.
>
> [1] http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/
>
> I'd appreciate any help and sugestions.
>
> Best regards,


Using a native windows version of qemu would be more reasonable.
There are no precompiled windows binaries of current qemu,
so you will have to compile them yourself (which is not difficult
once you have the correct mingw environment).

The setup which you proposed might work in theory, but will be
less performant (if it works).

Regards,
Stefan Weil