Re: [Qemu-discuss] Newbie: Running Solaris8/SPARC binaries / shared objects on x86-Linux Machines

[Dennis Luehring]

Am 30.08.2014 23:18, schrieb Tony Su:
>   Need some clarification,
> Are you really asking how to run Solaris on x86 or the other way
> around? I'm going to assume you have a Solaris application running on
> SPARC hardware and you want to explore options running on Linux
> instead because it doesn't make much sense to me that you would want
> to continue to run on ancient hardware. Even consumer grade
> contemporary hardware is probably a better economic decision than to
> run on that old hardware.

"I want to replace the SPARC by a state-of-the art Linux / x86 computer"

isn't that clear enough - don't assume - read the email


> So, what are your options?
> Let's say your application only exists running on Solaris 8 and it
> requires access to, and uses SPARC hardware.
> In this case, you might consider cobbling together a SPARC environment
> using QEMU emulation.QEMU should support all Sun SPARC CPUs and most
> likely any SPARC I/O devices as well.

thats new to me - the SPARC part of qemu seems to be in an sometimes
very experimental state

> Let's say your app only runs on Solaris 8 but does not require access
> to SPARC hardware.
> In this case, you can use almost any virtualization that exists
> because various Solaris runs on x86 (I haven't checked whether Solaris
> 8 is one of them). You should be able to use KVM, VMware, VirtualBox,
> Parallels, Hyper-V(I'm guessing), Xen or anything else for better
> performance.

but the current system is SPARC so no x86 virtualizer can help to run 
its SPARC code
on x86 - or how is that possible?