As soon as the pc reboots after installing, i either find myself staring at a black screen or my box goes into endless rebooting. Make sure you choose manual reboot when prompted we need to change some settings or else it wont boot. I can also possibly try this with bootable solaris 10 sparc if thats available at some download link. If you are looking to build just the sparc system emulators from source yourself, then pass the options targetlist sparc softmmu sparc64softmmu to qemu s configure script. Unfortunately i managed to install solaris into ss5 only so we are restricted to maximum 256 mb ram. Some other products such as vmware and virtual pc use similar approaches to bochs and qemu, however they use a. Ive cloned the qemu project and configuredcompiled it with sparc64 support. Nowadays i need to work on a solaris 10 system on sparc processor. This is a super simple guide, that is far from complete on the installation of solaris 2. My boss wants us to move all our appication to our new vmware platforn. Qemu full system emulation binaries sparc qemu is a fast processor emulator. Hi, i tried the following command to boot solaris 9 sparc.
Sparc on linux x86 via qemusystemsparc 900415 nov 15, 2011 11. This package provides the full system emulation binaries to emulate the following sparc hardware. By using dynamic translation it achieves reasonable speed while being easy to port on new host cpus. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Run programs for another linuxbsd target, on any supported architecture. I have been trying to install on my core 2 duo for two months now with both solaris 10 and the latest solaris express no luck. Qemu short for quick emulator is a free and opensource emulator that performs hardware. On that solaris version i need to install weblogic application server, i need to know where can i download solaris 10 for this and also what is the difference in sparc and x86 version and. I really doubt whether solaris 10 will run properly if at all on core 2 duo. Build your own sparc workstation with qemu and solaris. Revisiting a solaris on qemu install fun with virtualization. However, if you used solaris 10 as your host os then setting up a solaris 9 legacy zone on that is easy. Hi all, actually i need to install solaris 10 version over vmware which is installed over my windows machine.
Sparc on linux x86 via qemusystemsparc oracle community. In your case running sparc on x86 will be at least 10 times slower. Dec 06, 2017 yes, i can confirm theres still plenty of qemu sparc development going on you should find with the latest qemu release 2. Another at the beginning of the commandline installation. Comparison of platform virtualization software wikipedia. If you have a 3 gigahertz intel processor dont expect anything faster than a 300 megahertz sparc. I have acquired a solaris 10 sparc iso sol 10 u11ga sparc dvd. Fix solaris boot on ss10ss20 machines with openbios openbios. Just to reiterate, im trying to find out what versions of solaris i. Run kvm and xen virtual machines with near native performance. Im trying to run a solaris 11 sparc64 guest on a linuxx8664 host. Ive tried various examples and tutorials, but everything seems to be written against older versions.
Install oracle solaris 10 over a network oracle sparc sun. The specific processor i am interested in emulating is a t4. Qemu has support for both 32 and 64bit sparc architectures. If you are talking sparc architecture then afaik a solaris 9 zone known as a legacy zone is not supported on a solaris 11 host global zone.
Set the initial graphical resolution and depth ppc, sparc only. Qemu can boot many guest operating systems, including linux, solaris. Platform virtualization software, specifically emulators and hypervisors, are software packages. Dec 15, 2012 qemu on solaris 10 posted in boot virtual machines. Im currently watching a solaris 10 install under qemu on my laptop. The issue here is not only emulating cpu but a full sparc server with its devices close enough for being able to boot a disk image, especially by someone with no experience with sun solaris. If you make a mistake it doesnt void your hardware warranty. Networkbased installations describes how to create the installation server and set up the client systems note to install the client system over a network that is not part of the same subnet, you must also create a boot server. Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs. Some of these machines will be to test against customer systems where solaris on sparc is used so testing against open indiana wouldnt be ideal. May 03, 2010 well after a lot of digging around, i was able to come up with solaris 2. You can replace 10g with any number and it will create a virtual disk of that size in gb.
Qemu for v7v8 can boot linux and most bsds and experimentally solaris. Create a virtual hard disk as you usually do, with qemuimg, then heres the line. This time it will be about emulating the legendary sun solaris 2. How to run android in qemu to play 3d android games on linux. I got a solaris 10 dvd in my auug shwag basically, i want to play with dtrace and see how easy it is to do things with it. I can then use the emulated sparc to run solaris 11 i hope. If the system is new, outofthebox, turn on the system. Being poor, i dont have a spare sparc server lying around on which i can install solaris 11, so i will need to emulate one on x86, probably using qemu, but if there are other tools i can use im open to suggestions. I recently learned that vm virtualbox cant emulate sparc architecture. Qemu is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. Users should install the qemusystemsparc package in order the. Installing solaris iou in sparc server zivo nix blog. Has anyone tried and more importantly, succeeded building qemu or any other virtualization software on oracle solaris 10.
Users should install the qemu system sparc package in order the use the sparc system emulators provided by their distribution building from source. It is also two orders of magnitude slower than a real one. If you want to install a system that is currently running, shut down the system. You would then need to create a solaris 8 branded zone to run inside as a sort of type2 hypervisor. This plug checks the memory usage on solaris server and prints the output for alerting as well as performance data. Therefore, i am currently trying to emulate solaris 10 sparc using qemu. Debian details of package qemusystemsparc in jessie. Gnulinux, yes, yes, yes, yes, na, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Compatible, solaris 10, solaris 11, oracle support.
I have been trying to get this question answered using the qemu listserv as well but as i am unsure of whether this is an issue relating to qemu or solaris. Is it possible to get more than one cpu under qemu. Either way, you would need the iso images for solaris 8. Hopefully it will encourage developers to extend qemu system emulation with more sparc cpu variants, perhaps multithreading tcg in the future. Note that qemu isnt all that faithful of an emulation and it does dynamically recompile so it might be a bit faster in practice it is pretty slow but at the price of possibly less compatibility. In case of sparc it can emulate a sparcstation 5 or a sparcstation 10.
Performing an installation or upgrade with the oracle. Qemu also powers the android emulator which is part of the android sdk most. Emulate a sparcstation 20 and use the nographic optionqemusystemsparc hda pathtonetbsd. Insert the oracle solaris operating system for sparc platforms dvd or oracle solaris software for sparc platforms 1 cd. Hi all, i need to try installing solaris 8 sparc using qemu on x86 machine. I am not aware of any gnulinux dists which support 32bit sparc, but debian 4 did. Booting solaris 10 or 11 for sparc in qemusystemsparc64. So here are some screenshots of me installing solaris 10 in qemu my first impressions were surprise that it worked. The qemu image may be used for quick testing of cisco iou binary images compiled for sparc platform.
My employer runs a commercial version of vmware that emulates an 8cpu t5240 on a big pc box and it runs solaris 10 without problems. Sep 15, 2016 the goal of this article is to describe detailed steps of installation solaris 2. Solaris sparc in vmware hi there, i wonder if anyone can help, i have an application that is compiled to run on solaris sparc 10 we currently run it on sun sparc v490ss. As of may 2010, the needed changes to qemu have not been released into a public version of qemu, but rather are available in the source repository. I dont want to have a partition for it nor run it as a. The debian etch distribution supports sparcstation 5 or a sparcstation 10 natively, including emulated ones. In my case, thats a ss5, and i got the bin file from here. The sparc version of solaris 10 cant run on virtual box.