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

[John Chludzinski]

Ok, I'll do that.

Still building.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 2:04 PM Mike Russo <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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
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> *To*: Mike Russo <address@hidden
> <address@hidden%3e>>
> *Cc*: address@hidden <address@hidden
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> *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> 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.*
>
>
>