Re: [Qemu-discuss] Newbie: Running Solaris8/SPARC binaries / shared objects on x86-Linux Machines

[Dennis Luehring]

Am 31.08.2014 14:56, schrieb Jerry Stuckle:
> On 8/31/2014 12:44 AM, Dennis Luehring wrote:
> > Am 30.08.2014 23:18, schrieb Tony Su:
> >>   Need some clarification,
> >> Are you really asking how to run Solaris on x86 or the other way
> >> around? I'm going to assume you have a Solaris application running on
> >> SPARC hardware and you want to explore options running on Linux
> >> instead because it doesn't make much sense to me that you would want
> >> to continue to run on ancient hardware. Even consumer grade
> >> contemporary hardware is probably a better economic decision than to
> >> run on that old hardware.
> >
> > "I want to replace the SPARC by a state-of-the art Linux / x86 computer"
> >
> > isn't that clear enough - don't assume - read the email
> >
>
> Which didn't answer Tony's question - the same one I had.  Maybe the
> problem is not in his reading - but your description.
>
> Of course insulting people trying to help you is a great way to
> encourage people to give you assistance - especially when you're not
> paying them for it.

im not looking for help, because im not the author of the first question
i also tried some time ago to virtualize a SPARC system with qemu

> >
> >> So, what are your options?
> >> Let's say your application only exists running on Solaris 8 and it
> >> requires access to, and uses SPARC hardware.
> >> In this case, you might consider cobbling together a SPARC environment
> >> using QEMU emulation.QEMU should support all Sun SPARC CPUs and most
> >> likely any SPARC I/O devices as well.
> >
> > thats new to me - the SPARC part of qemu seems to be in an sometimes
> > very experimental state
> >
>
> I haven't tried it personally but I think a friend of mine has.
> Unfortunately, it's a long weekend here and he's gone to the beach, so I
> won't be able to talk to him until at least Tuesday or Wednesday.

i've tried debian on an qemu emulation - 4 weeks ago and it worked, but 
not in graphics mode
and one of the SPARC maintainers told me that many parts are still under 
development

> >> Let's say your app only runs on Solaris 8 but does not require access
> >> to SPARC hardware.
> >> In this case, you can use almost any virtualization that exists
> >> because various Solaris runs on x86 (I haven't checked whether Solaris
> >> 8 is one of them). You should be able to use KVM, VMware, VirtualBox,
> >> Parallels, Hyper-V(I'm guessing), Xen or anything else for better
> >> performance.
> >>
> >
> > but the current system is SPARC so no x86 virtualizer can help to run
> > its SPARC code
> > on x86 - or how is that possible?
> >
> >
>
> He didn't say an x86 virtualizer.  But this goes back to the very first
> question.

VMWare, VirtualBox, Parallel are x86 Host/Guest only virtualizer so he 
talked about it