Comments on: Solaris 2.4 on Qemu (SPARC)

By: Steff

Steff — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 11:05:56 +0000

Good job, neozeed!
Mounting the cdrom iso image as a second hard drive is what I missed, very genial.
I’ve just set the scsi_options as post-install setting.
Now I’d like to start the GUI but don’t know the right command.
If you can post it, it would be very appreciated. Many thanks.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:28:27 +0000

In reply to dani. I'll see what I can do.

By: dani

dani — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:07:11 +0000

Can you post step by step procedure to build sparc solaris system under qemu…either windows or ubuntu. I’ve been trying to configure sparc machine under qemu, since last two weeks but I am stuck at boot prompt, go further ahead…
your help will be very much appreciated..thanks…

By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:22:13 +0000

In reply to Philip. please ignore! gunzip is looking for bash

By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:04:07 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

neozeed: uuencode/telnet/http/pkgadd gzip works fine, but I get this strange problem, when I try to execute a file I get ‘file not found’. For example: I can cat, cp gunzip, but not execute it:

# ls -il gunzip
1174340 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2269 Dec 13 01:47 gunzip
# pwd
/usr/local/bin
# echo $PATH
/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
# cp gunzip gunzip2
# ./gunzip
./gunzip: not found

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:14:09 +0000

It is why I ended up using uuencode and pasting into the console to uudecode.. (mesg -n)!!

Once I got that in place using things like lynx/wget and httpd made things a billion times easier. Also if you do the tun/tap dance you can use NFS although I’ve never done it. I don’t know why but once Solaris is installed getting it to do anything with the CD-ROM is a nightmare.

By: Philip

Philip — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:09:45 +0000

argh – all goes well until I want to transfer files from the linux hist to the sparc solaris 2.5.1 guest. I can telnet but ftp either way doesn’t work, I can create an iso and mount it with -cdrom /test.iso and see the filenames on the CD but impossible to copy them.

By: sirou

sirou — Mon, 09 May 2011 20:50:06 +0000

Thank you for your fast answer.

i've been doing some tests and now i can do ftp and telnet from guest(sunos) to host(linux)

but ftp from guest doesn't work well:

guestsun %
guestsun % ftp 10.0.2.2
Connected to 10.0.2.2.
220 sirou FTP server (Version 6.4/OpenBSD/Linux-ftpd-0.17) ready.
Name (10.0.2.2:cruzado): sirou
331 Password required for sirou.
Password:
230- Linux sirou 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
230- Ubuntu 10.10
230-
230- Welcome to Ubuntu!
230- * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
230-
230 User sirou logged in.
ftp> ls
500 Illegal PORT rejected (address wrong).
425 Can't build data connection: Connection refused.
ftp>

I may study tap solution becouse i need full conectivity between host and guest.

By: Neozeed

Neozeed — Mon, 09 May 2011 16:02:13 +0000

Ouch, you've got both the host & qemu on the same network… which will just confuse the thing to no end.

I forget where in slirp it gets initialized to 10.0.2, but basically the major problem you have is that both Qemu & your host have the same network, but they are not on the same network….. If that makes any sense, basically the Qemu VM is *NOT* on your network when you use -net nat …. You may want to check out tun/tap networking which will work better if all your stuff is on 10.0.2.0/24

By: atar

atar — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:13:40 +0000

Yes, it's normal. From the guest point of view your host address is 10.0.2.2. Telnet should directly work with this address, ftp is more tricky because the default 2.6 client doesn't support the passive mode.