Re: [Qemu-devel] virtualize sparc developer workstation?

[Markus Armbruster]

Cc'ing the SPARC maintainer.

dennis luehring <address@hidden> writes:

> i want to virtualize (under a linux x86 host) my noisy sparc workstation
> with the help of qemu and want to know if its possible to
> get an system image to run or what other options available
> for sparc virtualization
>
> im developing a low-traffic network communication software
> and sparc is one of my test platforms
>
> is the sparc emulation good enough for
> (low-traffic) network communication tests?
>
> my current system specs:
> -SUN Ultra 10 SPARC Workstation
> -384 MB RAM
> -Operating System: Solaris 10 November 2006 - SunOS Release 5.10
> Generic_118833-33 64-bit
> -Desktop: CDE 1.6.3, X11 Version 6.6.2
> -Compiler: SunStudio 12 - Sun C/C++ v5.9 2007/05/03 (and gcc v.3.4.6)
> -Workstation-Info: SUNW,Ultra-5_10;sparc;sun4u
>
> it would be nice to have the desktop running
> but i can compile & test my software fully on command line
>
> questions are:
> -can i boot an image of my machine into qemu?
> -what bios do i need - OpenBios, OpenBoot, original (how can i get
> this from my machine?)
> -use qemu git head or other version?
>
> thx for any help