On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Not very well yet. For running a single application, it could be possible to develop a Solaris user emulator to run only the applications under x86 Solaris. > 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. Used Sparc hardware is not very expensive either.
