View source for Installing Solaris 2.4 on Qemu SPARC

This is a super simple guide, that is far from complete on the installation of Solaris 2.4 on Qemu's SPARC emulator.

As of May 2010, the needed changes to Qemu have *NOT* been released into a public version of Qemu, but rather are available in the source repository.  Once a version is released post 0.12.4 it should be all in there.

Some of the things you'll need:
*[http://home.earthlink.net/~reif/ss5.bin ss5.bin]
*[http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/qemu/solaris.disk.gz solaris.disk.gz]
*You will also need an ISO of a Solaris 2.4 CD-ROM.  You'll need to use cdread, from the mkiosfs package to get the whole thing!


== Building Qemu ==

=== Using GIT to get the source ===

In the meantime, you'll need to get the sourcecode via GIT.
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git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu.git
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If things change, I have kept a "known good" copy of Qemu right [http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/qemu/05012010.tar.gz here], that can run Solaris 2.4 .

=== Configure & Build ===
With that out of the way, you can now build the source.  Since we are only concerned with the SPARC stuff, you can simply run configure like this:

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configure --target-list=sparc-softmmu
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And then run make.  This should produce the qemu-system-sparc-softmmu executable.  At this point I'm assuming you are on a system that is capable of compiling Qemu.  Otherwise, there is another tutorial available on how to build Qemu for [[Windows]] users.

== Starting Qemu ==
I'm using Windows to do this, but it won't matter as the syntax is basically the same.

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qemu-system-sparc -L . -M SS-5 -m 32 -bios ss5.bin -nographic -serial mon:telnet:127.0.0.1:23,server,nowait -hda solaris.disk -startdate "2009-12-13" -net nic -net user -redir tcp:52323::23 -cdrom solaris_2.4_sparc.iso
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Then simply telnet to localhost, and you can watch the OpenBoot Firmware doing it's thing.

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