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

[Mike Russo]

I really don't think CentOS with Fedora repos are going to work. I've never 
been able to do that. What is the version of qemu included in the CentOS 7.6 
repositories? If it's not recent enough, I think you should just compile from 
source following the instructions on the qemu wiki. It's not that hard, I've 
definitely done it before.


--

Michael Russo, Systems Engineer PaperSolve, Inc. 268 Watchogue Road Staten 
Island, NY 10314 Your random quote for today: "Then you admit confirming not 
denying you ever said that?" "NO! ... I mean Yes! WHAT?" "I'll put `maybe.'" -- 
Bloom County

-----Original Message-----
From: John Chludzinski <address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden%3e>>
To: Mike Russo <address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden%3e>>
Cc: address@hidden <address@hidden<mailto:%address@hiddenaddress@hidden%3e>>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-sparc vs qemu-system-sparc
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:50:24 -0400

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto:address@hidden%3e>>
To: address@hidden<mailto: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.*