Installing Solaris 2.4 on Qemu SPARC - Revision history

Neozeed: 0.12.4 won't boot a SS-5 correctly.... so ... no go.

2010-07-01T15:45:13Z

0.12.4 won't boot a SS-5 correctly.... so ... no go.

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	This is a super simple guide, that is far from complete on the installation of Solaris 2.4 on Qemu's SPARC emulator.		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 0.12.3 it should be all in there.		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:		Some of the things you'll need:

Neozeed at 15:21, 1 July 2010

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	*[http://home.earthlink.net/~reif/ss5.bin ss5.bin]		*[http://home.earthlink.net/~reif/ss5.bin ss5.bin]
	*[http://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/qemu/solaris.disk.gz solaris.disk.gz]		*[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 to get the whole thing!		*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!

Neozeed: lame initial version

2010-05-04T13:14:07Z

lame initial version

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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 0.12.3 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 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.
<pre>
git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu.git
</pre>

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:

<pre>
configure --target-list=sparc-softmmu
</pre>

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.

<pre>
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
</pre>

Then simply telnet to localhost, and you can watch the OpenBoot Firmware doing it's thing.

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