On 18/05/16 11:01, David Griffith wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > >> On 18/05/16 10:47, David Griffith wrote: >> >>>>> Debian 8 installs QEMU 2.5. I upgraded to 2.6 with >>>>> jessie-backports to >>>>> no avail. None of your suggestions worked at all. >>>> >>>> Hmmm I wonder if what you're seeing is a framebuffer issue with GTK? Do >>>> you see any of the GTK menus at all around the black screen? What >>>> happens if you try and connect to the framebuffer over VNC, e.g. adding >>>> -vnc :1 to the command line and using a VNC client pointed at >>>> localhost? >>> >>> No menus at all. The VNC client window is also black. >> >> The only other thing I can think of is that the Debian packages don't >> include the QEMU,cgthree.bin ROM file required to initialise the display >> in the device tree. Can you see both this file, QEMU,tcx.bin and >> openbios-sparc32 in /usr/share/qemu for your installation? > > I see only openbios-sparc32, not QEMU,tcx.bin or QEMU,cgthree.bin.
Ahhh so it appears that Debian have broken QEMU packages for qemu-system-sparc :( You should be able to grab the binaries directly from QEMU git at http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=tree;f=pc-bios;h=1cbe7b99f5fd330fab98804444b0d06f0c029b00;hb=a257c741491ff1c3c192d13a89c136dd6401c54d - simply drop both files into /usr/share/qemu manually and see if that helps. ATB, Mark.
