(Some day they maybe will be booted under qemu-system-sparc64 though). Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris do not support 32 bit SPARC platforms, so they can never be booted under qemu-system-sparc. Kernel debugger (kadb) can be loaded for the versions 1.1.2 (from a HDD image) and 2.2 - 9 (from a HDD image or an install CD/DVD). Reading, understanding and using the Howto is by no means a guarantee for successfully finishing the task, and any mechanical failure, accident, psychological trauma or other cataclysm that may result from using the Howto is entirely your own responsibility and liability.Ĭurrently the versions 1.1.2 (SunOS 4.1.4), 2.2 (SunOS 5.2), 2.3 (SunOS 5.3), 2.4 (SunOS 5.4), 2.5.1 (SunOS 5.5.1), 2.6 (SunOS 5.6), 7 (SunOS 5.7), 8 (SunOS 5.8) and 9 (SunOS 5.9) are supported. The emulation of sparc system is still being improved, so this document will probably be updated.
The current version of this how-to is available under.
This document attempts to answer basic questions on how to set up qemu-system-sparc so that it can boot Solaris.
