[Qemu-devel] Re: Solaris/SPARC binaries

[Blue Swirl]

Hi,

Sparc V8 system emulator is very much complete, but in practice some hidden 
bugs in it (and also bugs in Proll's Openprom support) make the emulator 
fragile. It can only run Linux 2.6 series, 2.4 or BSDs won't run. Probably 
some heavy debugging could make a difference, but it seems that general 
interest for the emulator is low.

I haven't tried Solaris for Sparc V8, it would be interesting to hear the 
results.

V9 emulation is getting better, but it's still not usable for anything yet. 
For example, support for execution in memory above >4G limit (in 32-bit 
host) was committed to CVS only a few days ago. Maybe the user mode emulator 
could run 64-bit Linux binaries, but I don't have any.

It might be possible to make a Solaris user mode emulator by translating 
Solaris system calls to Linux, but it could be a lot of work.

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