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

[Tony Su]

 That is the special feature that QEMU provides... Full emulation.
Nothing else gives you the ability to run a processor environment that
is completely alien to the actual hardware.

Of course, there is a performance penalty but YMMV... You are
comparing ancient hardware vs full emulation on modern hardware.

Tony

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Dennis Luehring <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 30.08.2014 23:18, schrieb Tony Su:
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>>   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.
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> "I want to replace the SPARC by a state-of-the art Linux / x86 computer"
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> isn't that clear enough - don't assume - read the email
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>> 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.
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> thats new to me - the SPARC part of qemu seems to be in an sometimes
> very experimental state
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>> 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.
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> but the current system is SPARC so no x86 virtualizer can help to run its
> SPARC code
> on x86 - or how is that possible?
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