Thank you all for your responses. It appears that it would be wise to continue to maintain Sun hardware.
On 12 June 2011 22:51, Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
