Re: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-sparc vs qemu-system-sparc

[John Chludzinski]

Mike, first thanks for the response.

I'm trying to use the Fedora repos to accomplish this, Fedora 19 in this
case.
I get this:

Error: Package: 2:qemu-common-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 (Fedora-19)
           Requires: libiscsi.so.1()(64bit)
           Available: libiscsi-1.7.0-4.fc19.x86_64 (Fedora-19)
               libiscsi.so.1()(64bit)
           Installed: libiscsi-1.9.0-7.el7.x86_64 (@base)
              ~libiscsi.so.2()(64bit)
Error: Package: 2:qemu-system-sparc-1.4.2-3.fc19.x86_64 (Fedora-19)
           Requires: libiscsi.so.1()(64bit)
           Available: libiscsi-1.7.0-4.fc19.x86_64 (Fedora-19)
               libiscsi.so.1()(64bit)
           Installed: libiscsi-1.9.0-7.el7.x86_64 (@base)
              ~libiscsi.so.2()(64bit)

Is there a way to tell YUM to go ahead and update these packages?
(Assuming the newer version(s) is (are) backwards compatable?)

BTW, I started by doing:

sudo yum remove 'kvm*'
sudo yum remove 'qemu*'
sudo yum remove 'virt*'

... to clean the slate, so to speak.

---John

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 10:29 AM Mike Russo <address@hidden> wrote:

> You are trying to virtualize SPARC on x86 so you need qemu-system-sparc.
> qemu-sparc would be for a user-mode emulation on a SPARC processor. I've
> done this before on CentOS 7 and it should definitely be possible to
> install qemu-system-sparc. yum should not have a problem figuring out the
> dependencies - make sure you're all up to date and don't have any broken
> packages.
>
> --
>
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> Island, NY 10314 Your random quote for today: It is common sense to take a
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From*: John Chludzinski <address@hidden
> <address@hidden%3e>>
> *To*: address@hidden
> *Subject*: [Qemu-discuss] qemu-sparc vs qemu-system-sparc
> *Date*: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 17:43:46 -0400
>
> I installed CentOS 7.6 then installed all things QEMU on my machine. I have
>
> a SPARC image I need to bringing up in a VM. I've been using
>
> *qemu-system-sparc*.
>
>
> $ qemu-system-sparc -m 256 -hda solaris_v2-qemu_v2.2.0.disk -nographic
>
> -bios ./openbios-sparc32
>
>
> This is on a box on which I have Fedora-30 installed.
>
>
> Can I use *qemu-sparc* to bring up my Solaris image:
>
> *solaris_v2-qemu_v2.2.0.disk* ?
>
>
> If so, how?
>
>
> BTW, *qemu-sparc* come with (on CentOS 7.6):
>
>
> $ sudo yum install qemu*
>
>
> *PS> I've tried to install qemu-system-sparc on my CentOS box but ended up
>
> in a never-ending whack-a-mole game of dependencies.*
>
>
>