2010/7/25 DG UX <dgu...@gmail.com>: > Hello all, > > We have an old DG/UX machine (2 actually), in production use (scary, I > know). > These days I am trying to virtualize/emulate those machines. As we cannot > upgrade / reinstall the applications on a different platfrom, I am trying to > boot it up (DD'ed all the drives as images) and use it as is. > Attempts with Qemu are going O.K for now, got the bootloader working, but it > doesn't load up the kernel/sytem, probably because it excpects the original > Adaptec SCSI PCI Controller of the disks. > > Currently, these DGUX machines only support Qlogic and Adaptec, no IDE > whatsoever and no LSI.
What sort of Adaptec and Qlogic? qemu emulates a ncr53c9x chip for sparc & ppc machines, and I think there used to be an Adaptec card with this chip. > Any way Qemu will support anything like that? > > I got to know these DGUX machines very well, and know all the logs locations > and sys/hw info. If you need anything, including system/boot image, let me > know. > > Thanks a lot for reading, > > Adam -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/
