qemu discuss - Jul 2007 - Newbie questions about running Solaris as a guest on windows

Hello Everybody,

I want to run Solaris (preferably Solaris 9, but OpenSolaris is an option) as a
guest on windows XP. I''ve read the tutorial on how to prepare a host
and a guest (the one on http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/qemu/guest/), but
still I''m confused, so I''d like to ask few questions:

1. Can I use qemu 0.9 binaries (for example a package qemu-0.9.0-sparc.zip found
on http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/), or should I download the source code
from CVS, apply patches (if so, which ones?) and build it myself? I tried to
build the version on the site (QEMU CVS Code drop – 2007/06/12, with
patches), but it throws a "No rule to make target
`config-host.mak''.  Stop." message when invoking
''make'' on it. I assume it''s only for OpenSolaris, but
if no, what do I need to build it on Windows?

2. Which Solaris/OpenSolaris distributions should work with qemu? I mean names
as well as architectures (I''d preferably install Solaris on an emulated
Sparc).

3. Anyone got experiences on running OpenSolaris as a guest on Windows and could
share it?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

> 1. Can I use qemu 0.9 binaries (for example a package qemu-0.9.0-sparc.zip
found on http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/), or should I download the source
code from CVS, apply patches (if so, which ones?) and build it myself? I tried
to build the version on the site (QEMU CVS Code drop – 2007/06/12,
with patches), but it throws a "No rule to make target
`config-host.mak''.  Stop." message when invoking
''make'' on it. I assume it''s only for OpenSolaris, but
if no, what do I need to build it on Windows?
qemu-0.9.0-windows.zip should work, qemu.exe should boot the 32-bit kernel,
qemu-system-x86_64.exe should boot the 64-bit kernel.
> 2. Which Solaris/OpenSolaris distributions should work with qemu? I mean
names as well as architectures (I''d preferably install Solaris on an
emulated Sparc).
x86 only. The SPARC emulation is not complete enough to boot any version of
Solaris. Any version of Solaris should boot and work under QEMU, for older
Solaris releases pre-GRUB, you may need to play with flags such as disabling
ACPI. The OpenSolaris QEMU site has more advice like which network emulation to
use, etc. Recent Nevada bits definitely work.

- Eric






       
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