Ah, I hadn't tried -nographic. However, my general point still stands: whether you run this on MacOS or Linux, you get the same behaviour.
Experimenting I see that all that's happening here is that '-nographic' gives you a serial console, which the ROM outputs to. You can also specify that with '-serial stdio' instead, in which case you get ROM output to the terminal and a blank display. So the two parts of this bug are: (1) no graphics output with this ROM (2) cocoa UI doesn't properly show a black window if there is no graphics output from the guest I have some patches which fix (2). (If you have a bug which is a general QEMU emulation bug, it's a really bad idea to describe it using phrases like"on Cocoa" or "on MacOS" which suggest that it's a MacOS host specific bug, because this will mean that it will get ignored by almost all the developers, most of whom use Linux. If you have access to a suitable machine it's definitely helpful to try reproducing on a Linux box before reporting a bug. If you've only been able to test on Mac you should say so somewhere in the bug report, though.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1260555 Title: SS-5 emulation doesn't work with Sun boot ROM Status in QEMU: New Bug description: The 32-bit SPARC emulator's TCX emulation seems to work with OpenBIOS, but doesn't work with a SparcStation ROM on Cocoa. Screenshot attached. Using version 1.7.0 on Mac OS X 10.9 via MacPorts and compiled directly from source, though this problem has carried over from Mac OS X 10.8 and many earlier versions of Qemu. The following is my Qemu command: sudo qemu-system-sparc -m 256 -M SS-5 -bios /home/img/ROMs/sun/ss5-170.bin \ -g 1024x768x24 \ -drive file=/home/doc/VMs/slagheap/sd0.raw,if=scsi,bus=0,unit=3 \ -drive file=/home/doc/VMs/slagheap/sd1.raw,if=scsi,bus=0,unit=1 \ -drive file=/home/doc/VMs/slagheap/sd2.raw,if=scsi,bus=0,unit=2 \ -net nic,macaddr=DE:EE:DD:FF:EE:DD,model=lance \ -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=/home/doc/VMs/slagheap/ifup,downscript=/home/doc/VMs/slagheap/ifdown Note: also can't compile Qemu w/ SDL support from MacPorts on Mac OS X, and config.log is not helpful to figure out why, but this is another issue. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1260555/+subscriptions
