Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU on Solaris

[Michele Denber]

On 08-13-2018 6:08 AM, Peter Tribble wrote:
> From the point of view of software such as qemu, divergences should be 
> slight
> (there are going to be changes around packaging, shipped compilers, 
> but that's
> true for different Linux distros in the same family). If it builds and 
> works on
> Solaris, it'll build and work on one of the illumos distributions, and 
> vice versa.
> (Although I note that's Solaris 10 mentioned above, which is now EOL, and
> may be a little more problematic due to its age.)
I'm still using Solaris 10 because upgrading to Solaris 11 is a giant 
pain, and they did away with the Java Desktop Environment GUI in 11.  I 
really like the JDE.  However, I believe that Solaris 10 programs should 
also work in Solaris 11.  And it looks like Solaris 11 may be the end of 
the line anyway.
> You can certainly run illumos (such as OpenIndiana or Tribblix) in a 
> VM easily,
> and freely. I can help with that.
>
> That's for x86, of course. Building on a SPARC platform is a different 
> matter
> entirely. (Although that's one of the reasons some of us are 
> interested in qemu
> in the first place.)
That's exactly why I'm interested.  I'd like to declare my independence 
form Microsoft and Windows but I still have a few important Windows 
programs that won't run on anything else.  One can debate Solaris vx. 
Linux, but I've made my choice.

            - Michele