Re: [Qemu-devel] SunOS support

[Peter Maydell]

On 22 September 2017 at 16:51, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 22/09/2017 14:05, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 20 September 2017 at 19:50, Peter Tribble <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> To introduce myself: I'm a member of the illumos community (the successor
>>> to OpenSolaris, to those unfamiliar with us), and I maintain my own illumos
>>> distribution.
>>>
>>> Having seen the scary 'SUPPORT FOR THIS HOST OS WILL GO AWAY'
>>> message, I'm reaching out to see what needs to be done so that support for
>>> SunOS (not just illumos, I include Oracle's Solaris in the same family)
>>> needs to be kept and, where possible, enhanced.
>>>
>>> I'm willing to act as a contact in this effort, and can work with others in
>>> the illumos community to see if there are other resources we can bring to 
>>> bear.
>>
>> Hi; thanks for getting in touch with us. Kamil Rytarowski (who I've
>> cc'd) is also interested in keeping Solaris-variant support working.
>>
>> Essentially what we need as upstream is:
>>  * access to a machine which we can use for our continuous
>>    integration build testing, so we don't break compile
>>    support for the platform. This is ideally a machine that
>>    somebody else admins and we just use (because we don't
>>    want to become solaris/illumos admins ;-)), but failing
>>    that, instructions on how to get a VM running under
>>    KVM on Linux would also be OK (that's how we've ended
>>    up handling the BSDs)
>
> I would even reverse the order since now we're handling the BSDs using
> the VM test infrastructure.  Let's say having both would be best.

I only have the one beefy machine to run VMs on, so the more
OSes we handle via VMs the more overloaded it gets. Also,
everything we have as a VM is another thing I have to maintain
and presumably update from time to time...

thanks
-- PMM