On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Mateusz Loskot <mate...@loskot.net> wrote: > Hi, > > First, I'm sorry if my question does not belong here. The qemu-devel > says it's "devel", but I can't find any qemu-users mailing list.
A forum exists: http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/ > I have no experience with QEMU. I've been using x86-only virtualization > software like VirtualBox, VMWare and others. > > I need to run Solaris (SPARC) OS and I'd like to do it under QEMU. > Due to hardware constraints, I'm wondering if the following setup > would work at all: > > 1. Quad-core workstation with 16GB RAM with Windows Vista 64-bit > as host OS > 2. The Windows runs VirtualBox with Linux installed as guest OS. > 3. The Linux guest OS runs QEMU > 4. QEMU runs Solaris (SPARC) > > The Linux guest OS can be either Linux x86-32 or x86-64, > depending which one is recommended and would perform better. > > Is this configuration reasonable? > Would it work well? Sparc32 Solaris can run with recent QEMU: http://tyom.blogspot.com/ Sparc64 is not ready yet. > I have found the "QEMU on Winows" [1] but I'm not sure if this is an > official project and if it's "production ready". > I need to have fairly stable environment for building and > testing software on SPARC architecture. Someone should step up as Win32 maintainer, also making Windows builds available.
