[Qemu-discuss] Sparc Solaris Virtualization

[Jim Jarvie]

I've been working on virtualizing some SPARC workstations running SunOS
& Solaris.

I've managed to get the SPARC-20 workstations done (basically, using
this http://kb.networksystemssolutions.info/index.php/Sparc_Virtualization).

However, the Ultra-2 workstations are not so easy and just crash on boot
with

panic[cpu0]/thread=10408000: VAC too big!

I' wondering if the issue is OpenBIOS ?  The SS-20 used a Sun BIOS image
but I've not found any Ultra-2 BIOS images I can use to try.

Any suggestions are welcome...

Jim


Full details :

/opt/qemu23/bin/qemu-system-sparc64 -m 1024 -drive
file=des.raw,unit=0,format=raw -nographic -net
nic,macaddr=08:00:de:ad:be:ef  -cpu "TI UltraSparc II"
Warning: vlan 0 is not connected to host network
OpenBIOS for Sparc64
Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 0
kernel cmdline
CPUs: 1 x SUNW,UltraSPARC-II
UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Mar 12 2015 08:09
  Type 'help' for detailed information
Trying disk:a...
Not a bootable ELF image
Not a bootable a.out image

Loading FCode image...
Loaded 5936 bytes
entry point is 0x4000
open isn't unique.

Jumping to entry point 0000000000100000 for type 0000000000000001...
switching to new context: entry point 0x100000 stack 0x00000000ffe8aa09
warning:interpret: exception -13 caught
interpret warning @ warning off : sync %tl-c %tstate h# 1041b0a0 x! %g1
h# 1041b0a8 x! %g2 h# 1041b0b0 x! %g3 h# 1041b0b8 x! %g4 h# 1041b0c0 x!
%g5 h# 1041b0c8 x! %g6 h# 1041b0d0 x! %g7 h# 1041b0d8 x! %o0 h# 1041b0e0
x! %o1 h# 1041b0e8 x! %o2 h# 1041b0f0 x! %o3 h# 1041b0f8 x! %o4 h#
1041b100 x! %o5 h# 1041b108 x! %o6 h# 1041b110 x! %o7 h# 1041b118 x!
%tl-c %tpc h# 1041b120 x! %tl-c %tSunOS Release 5.8 Version
Generic_108528-09 64-bit1041c008 x! h# 1000798c set-pc go ; warning !
failed with error ffffffffff
Copyright 1983-2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
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panic[cpu0]/thread=10408000: VAC too big!


00000000104078c0 unix:startup_modules+11c (1040e400, 104148a0, 10417fb8,
10417fd0, 30000000000, 31000000000)
  %l0-3: 0000000000000103 0000000010423400 0000000000000000 0000000000002000
  %l4-7: 0000030000016000 000000001041c800 000000001041b800 000000001041a800
0000000010407970 unix:startup+14 (10428000, 0, 0, 3fe7c000, 2000,
ffffffffffffffff)
  %l0-3: 0000000010024240 000000000000cd56 0000000000000476 0000000000000000
  %l4-7: 0000000010461e40 00000000002d4d7e 00000000000b6476 0000000000000476
0000000010407a20 genunix:main+4 (1040d400, 2000, 10407ec0, 10408030,
fff2, 1004e5e0)
  %l0-3: 0000000010408000 0000000000000001 0000000000000015 0000000000000e7f
  %l4-7: 0000000010428a98 0000000010461e40 00000000000cbe50 0000000000000540

skipping system dump - no dump device configured
rebooting...
BOOTpanic - kernel: prom_reboot: reboot call returned!
EXIT
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