Regarding virtualization

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Bob Wickline wrote:
> Actually there is an emulation option for SPARC on Intel. Check out
> http://www.qemu.org/ . There was also an emulation product from Transitive
> but IBM bought them out and squashed it like a bug for some reason...
>
Right, but if the OP isn't sure how to set up Solaris as a VM, and wasn't
aware that SPARC is a different hardware architecture, I have very grave
doubts that he wants to try to run a SPARC VM *under* the emulation.
That's not something I'd want to do, unless I was explicitly
cross-developing.

       mark
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> "white.heron white" <white.heron at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Fyi. The Solaris SPARC operating system is design for SUN SPARC
> architecture.
> The Linux PC design based on Intel architecture. It is totally different
> from SUN SPARC architecture.
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> From: Marco Shaw <marco.shaw at gmail.com>
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2011 6:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Regarding virtualization
>
> You cannot install the Solaris SPARC version on a Linux virtualization
> solution.  You will need the Solaris Intel version, and you may or may
> not have problems.  You are also asking a very broad question, and may
> need to do a bit more searching on the Internet to find some details
> on how to proceed.
>
> Marco
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:37 PM,  <amiteshsahay at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Members
>>
>>
>> Greetings!!
>>
>>
>> Can someone explain how to virtualise (or emulate) a Solaris 9 or 8
>> SPARC system on a Linux PC? (How to install a virtual system from the
>> DVD? How to clone an existing system as a virtual one?)
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Amitesh S
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