Can we load Solaris for sparc on a X86 linux host (qemu)

OPelerin · Guru Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 354 Location: Belgium

Quick question.

Can we get a solaris for sparc ( either 32 bits or 64 bits) running on a linux host. I see qemu is emulating the processor in 32 bits mode.

I see there anybody who tried to install solaris 8- 9 - 10 for sparc 32 or 64 bits? Could you share your experience?

Thanks
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grimm26 · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 11:40 pm Post subject:

Their sparc sun4m emulation is listed as "in progress." So my question to you is why in the world would you want to emulate a sun4m box? You could probably buy a sparc20 for $50 and be done with it if you really want to run at 75 MHz and use sBus.
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OPelerin · Guru Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 354 Location: Belgium

Just to avoid to buy a deprecated old system.

My home pc gets 4 gig memory and I already use VMWARE for emulating some other O.S.

I Have a application ( from my current employement) that requires a SUN ( either 32 bits or 64 bits) loaded with lots of memory. I would like get it running without extra equipment.
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