On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Felix Oxley <fe...@oxley.org> wrote: > I have a an (almost) EOL factory planning system running on Solaris > Sparc which I would like to move to intel (and preferably virtualise) > in order to avoid having to maintain the Sun system and backup system. > The text based cobol application runs on this system: SunOS gplan 5.9 > Generic_118558-35 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1500. It is not feasible > to recompile the application to x86. > > Therefore I am looking for alternative solutions. I heard of > Transitive QuickTransit, however since being purchased by IBM I do not > believe this is being marketed.
Right. > Would QEMU be suitable for this task? Would I be able to get commercial > support? I think it will be difficult to get commerical support for QEMU SPARC. How well QEMU runs sun4u I'm not sure. Personally, I would leave it running untouched since there isn't a low-risk solution. Perhaps others on the list have more information but I wanted to reply in case no one else does so you'll at least have something to go by. Stefan
