Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-sparc vs qemu-system-sparc

[John Chludzinski]

Excuse me! I read these in reverse order. It's the Fedora 19 with the older
versions.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 1:37 PM John Chludzinski <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Mike, first thanks for the response.
>
> I'm trying to use the Fedora repos to accomplish this, Fedora 19 in this
> case.
> I get this:
>
> Error: Package: 2:qemu-common-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 (Fedora-19)
>            Requires: libiscsi.so.1()(64bit)
>            Available: libiscsi-1.7.0-4.fc19.x86_64 (Fedora-19)
>                libiscsi.so.1()(64bit)
>            Installed: libiscsi-1.9.0-7.el7.x86_64 (@base)
>               ~libiscsi.so.2()(64bit)
> Error: Package: 2:qemu-system-sparc-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 (Fedora-19)
>            Requires: libiscsi.so.1()(64bit)
>            Available: libiscsi-1.7.0-4.fc19.x86_64 (Fedora-19)
>                libiscsi.so.1()(64bit)
>            Installed: libiscsi-1.9.0-7.el7.x86_64 (@base)
>               ~libiscsi.so.2()(64bit)
>
> Is there a way to tell YUM to go ahead and update these packages?
> (Assuming the newer version(s) is (are) backwards compatable?)
>
> BTW, I started by doing:
>
> sudo yum remove 'kvm*'
> sudo yum remove 'qemu*'
> sudo yum remove 'virt*'
>
> ... to clean the slate, so to speak.
>
> ---John
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 10:29 AM Mike Russo <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> You are trying to virtualize SPARC on x86 so you need qemu-system-sparc.
>> qemu-sparc would be for a user-mode emulation on a SPARC processor. I've
>> done this before on CentOS 7 and it should definitely be possible to
>> install qemu-system-sparc. yum should not have a problem figuring out the
>> dependencies - make sure you're all up to date and don't have any broken
>> packages.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Michael Russo, Systems Engineer PaperSolve, Inc. 268 Watchogue Road
>> Staten Island, NY 10314 Your random quote for today: It is common sense to
>> take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
>> But above all, try something. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> *From*: John Chludzinski <address@hidden
>> <address@hidden%3e>>
>> *To*: address@hidden
>> *Subject*: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-sparc vs qemu-system-sparc
>> *Date*: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 17:43:46 -0400
>>
>> I installed CentOS 7.6 then installed all things QEMU on my machine. I have
>>
>> a SPARC image I need to bringing up in a VM. I've been using
>>
>> *qemu-system-sparc*.
>>
>>
>> $ qemu-system-sparc -m 256 -hda solaris_v2-qemu_v2.2.0.disk -nographic
>>
>> -bios ./openbios-sparc32
>>
>>
>> This is on a box on which I have Fedora-30 installed.
>>
>>
>> Can I use *qemu-sparc* to bring up my Solaris image:
>>
>> *solaris_v2-qemu_v2.2.0.disk* ?
>>
>>
>> If so, how?
>>
>>
>> BTW, *qemu-sparc* come with (on CentOS 7.6):
>>
>>
>> $ sudo yum install qemu*
>>
>>
>> *PS> I've tried to install qemu-system-sparc on my CentOS box but ended up
>>
>> in a never-ending whack-a-mole game of dependencies.*
>>
>>
>>