Re: [Qemu-devel] Linux as VirtualBox quest OS with QEMU running Solaris

[Artyom Tarasenko]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Mateusz Loskot <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 12/01/11 12:32, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>>
>> On 12/01/11 11:57, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Mateusz Loskot<address@hidden>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 10/01/11 21:04, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Mateusz Loskot<address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I suggest using QEMU git master. You could try the binaries
>>>>>>> from my website: http://www.weilnetz.de/qemu/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stefan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you very much!
>>>>>> So far, I have tried to use versions of QEMU from Qemu Manager 0.7
>>>>>> as well as QEMU 0.13 from
>>>>>> http://homepage3.nifty.com/takeda-toshiya/
>>>>>> but without any luck. I suppose it's because these versions do not
>>>>>> have most recent OpenBIOS usable with SPARC.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you need Solaris, OpenBIOS is currently not your choice.
>>>>
>>>> I understand.
>>>>
>>>>> Have to use an OBP blob.
>>>>
>>>> Where can I find instructions on how to use it?
>>>>
>>>> Actually, I don't need Solaris but SPARC.
>>>> So, even Linux for SPARC would do for me.
>>>>
>>>> I tried Debian 4.0 (etch) and Debian 5.0 (lenny) but with no luck.
>>>> I think I confused the 32 vs 64 bit and SPARC flavors.
>>>
>>> 32 bit Debian 4.0 should work out of the box, also with OpenBIOS.
>>
>> OK, then I will stick to the Linux distribution for 32-bit SPARC
>> and see if it works for me.
>
> If anyone is curious, I did a quick test on my over-engineered
> configuration with Windows Vista running VirtualBox with Ubuntu 64-bit
> as guest system running QEMU which is supposed to run Debian Etch 32-bit
> SPARC.
>
> I run:
>
> $ qemu-img create -f qcow hda.img 20G
> $ qemu-system-sparc -m 256 -hda hda.img -cdrom
> /home/mloskot/software/debian/debian-40r8-sparc-netinst.iso -boot d
> -localtime

Try -nographic . Also it's interesting to know whether you see
something when you start qemu-system-sparc without any command line
options.

> and QEMU window appears but it remains black all the time.
> The VirtualBox CPU is running 100%.
> I can issue CTRL+ALT+{1|2|3} to switch QEMU consoles, but nothing related to
> Debian booting appears.
>
> Here is screenshot:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mloskot/5348626557/
>
> I'm wondering if this is related to the VirtualBox+Linux host proxy.


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Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

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