On 12 January 2011 16:21, Mateusz Loskot <mate...@loskot.net> wrote: > On 12/01/11 14:40, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Mateusz Loskot<mate...@loskot.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 12/01/11 12:32, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >>>> >>>> On 12/01/11 11:57, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Mateusz Loskot<mate...@loskot.net> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On 10/01/11 21:04, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Mateusz Loskot<mate...@loskot.net> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I suggest using QEMU git master. You could try the binaries >>>>>>>>> from my website: http://www.weilnetz.de/qemu/ >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Stefan, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thank you very much! >>>>>>>> So far, I have tried to use versions of QEMU from Qemu Manager 0.7 >>>>>>>> as well as QEMU 0.13 from >>>>>>>> http://homepage3.nifty.com/takeda-toshiya/ >>>>>>>> but without any luck. I suppose it's because these versions do not >>>>>>>> have most recent OpenBIOS usable with SPARC. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If you need Solaris, OpenBIOS is currently not your choice. >>>>>> >>>>>> I understand. >>>>>> >>>>>>> Have to use an OBP blob. >>>>>> >>>>>> Where can I find instructions on how to use it? >>>>>> >>>>>> Actually, I don't need Solaris but SPARC. >>>>>> So, even Linux for SPARC would do for me. >>>>>> >>>>>> I tried Debian 4.0 (etch) and Debian 5.0 (lenny) but with no luck. >>>>>> I think I confused the 32 vs 64 bit and SPARC flavors. >>>>> >>>>> 32 bit Debian 4.0 should work out of the box, also with OpenBIOS. >>>> >>>> OK, then I will stick to the Linux distribution for 32-bit SPARC >>>> and see if it works for me. >>> >>> If anyone is curious, I did a quick test on my over-engineered >>> configuration with Windows Vista running VirtualBox with Ubuntu 64-bit >>> as guest system running QEMU which is supposed to run Debian Etch 32-bit >>> SPARC. >>> >>> I run: >>> >>> $ qemu-img create -f qcow hda.img 20G >>> $ qemu-system-sparc -m 256 -hda hda.img -cdrom >>> /home/mloskot/software/debian/debian-40r8-sparc-netinst.iso -boot d >>> -localtime >> >> Try -nographic . > > Here is what I get, no output, CPU runs 100% for long -40-sminutes > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/mloskot/5349339628/ > > I can use CTRL-a to access terminal commands and monitor > > > In the meantime, I also tested Debian Etch with QEMU 0.13 running directly > under Windows Vista. I installed QEMU 0.13 from binaries downloadable using > Qemu Manager (http://www.davereyn.co.uk/). > (I'm having problems with Stefan Weil's binaries as explained in this > thread, even if I can run them, the qemu-img.exe behaves strange not > accepting disk sizes). > > Anyway, It looks Debian booted properly: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/mloskot/5348739869/ > > I've just passed partitions formatting step, fingers crossed. > >> Also it's interesting to know whether you see >> something when you start qemu-system-sparc without any command line >> options. > > Here is what I get > > $ qemu-system-sparc > qemu: Too much memory for this machine: 384, maximum 256 > > By the way, I run > > $ qemu -version > QEMU PC emulator version 0.12.3 (qemu-kvm-0.12.3), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 > Fabrice Bellard > > > Thinking of future, could anyone estimate when it will be possible to > boot Solaris 10 installation from ISO disks, if at all? > To summary, what OS alternative for SPARC we have got apart from Debian > which are known to work under QEMU? *BSD systems? >
I can run NetBSD sparc install CD just fine. It supports sparc32 in the latest release. HTH Michal
