Re: [Qemu-devel] Linux as VirtualBox quest OS with QEMU running Solaris

[Blue Swirl]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Mateusz Loskot <address@hidden> 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.