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

[Blue Swirl]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Not very well yet. For running a single application, it could be
possible to develop a Solaris user emulator to run only the
applications under x86 Solaris.

> 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.

Used Sparc hardware is not very expensive either.