Paul Sheer wrote: >Hi. i need to perform software builds on solaris-sparc and i'm trying >to avoid buying a real sparc for this. So qemu would be really helpful. > >Be happy to buy something cool for whoever get's this working! > >When booting the solaris 9 install CD - > >qemu-0.8.2# uname -a >Linux sheerp-laptop 2.6.18 #2 PREEMPT Sat Nov 11 15:35:16 SAST 2006 i686 >GNU/Linux >qemu-0.8.2# qemu-system-sparc -hda qemu-Solaris-sparc.img -m 128 -boot d >-cdrom /opt/sol-9-905hw-install-ga-sparc.iso -nographic > > >- i get the following: > > >Nvram id QEMU_BIOS, version 1 >CPUs: 1 >nvram error detected, zapping pram >Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0RC1 built on Jun 8 2006 15:14 > Type 'help' for detailed information > >[sparc] Booting file 'cdrom' without parameters. >Not a bootable ELF image >Not a Linux kernel image >Not a bootable a.out image >Not a bootable ELF image >Not a Linux kernel image >Loading a.out image... >Loaded 7680 bytes >entry point is 0x4000 >Jumping to entry point... >device auxio size -1 > >hangs here with 100% CPU > > >thanks for any help with this > >-paul > >
Booting Solaris_sparc inside qemu?? --->> Unfortunately not (speaking of SunOS4.x/Solaris1.x and Solaris2.x 32 bit kernel): Good news is, that it successfully starts booting (a physical CD, a CD.iso or physical hdd) now. That is, it can read the vtoc now and starts executing bootblk. This quantum leap improvement is due to the fact, that qemu-system-sparc has moved to using openbios last summer. Bad news: openbios is a pretty good and standards conform implementation of ieee1275-94 OpenFirmware. But unfortunately is SUNW's proprietary OBP implementation not so standards conform, but instead implements certain behaviour differently (through explicit ifdefs in its sources). So openbios sets up the qemu-system-sparc machine in a state that is not expected by the Solaris_32bit guest. And it then dies before any output would have been sent to the console (i.e. SunOS 5.8 32 bit ...). Though it actually is quite a lot what it already does do now. Blue Swirl is working on that front. There is an opensource version of SUNW's OBP of implementation available for download on opensparc.org for 3 months now. Licensed under either BSD or GPL. It is a version optimized for use with sun4v (not sun4u). Maybe this can accellerate things. You should ask Blue Swirl for everything that has to do with sparc-emulation, please. My field is the HOST sparc support. If you need it cheap and slow, just get a U5/U10 starting at $10 (final auction price) from ebay. Or a Blade 100 - sometimes someone offers many at once in a multi_auction. Chances are then, you snipe one for below $30,- -Martin p.s. Why not just completely switching to Solaris sparc ?! :-) A Blade1000/2000 (via ebay.yourCountry) offers _the_ best price/performance ratio of all sparc workstation models. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
