Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU suitable for mission critical applications?

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Felix Oxley <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have a an (almost) EOL factory planning system running on Solaris
> Sparc which I would like to move to intel (and preferably virtualise)
> in order to avoid having to maintain the Sun system and backup system.
> The text based cobol application runs on this system: SunOS gplan 5.9
> Generic_118558-35 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1500. It is not feasible
> to recompile the application to x86.
>
> Therefore I am looking for alternative solutions. I heard of
> Transitive QuickTransit, however since being purchased by IBM I do not
> believe this is being marketed.

Right.

> Would QEMU be suitable for this task? Would I be able to get commercial 
> support?

I think it will be difficult to get commerical support for QEMU SPARC.
 How well QEMU runs sun4u I'm not sure.

Personally, I would leave it running untouched since there isn't a
low-risk solution.  Perhaps others on the list have more information
but I wanted to reply in case no one else does so you'll at least have
something to go by.

Stefan