Comments on: Revisiting a Solaris on Qemu install

By: Ayotunde Itayemi

Ayotunde Itayemi — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 01:33:06 +0000

https://www.itayemi.com/blog/2023/01/15/setting-up-solaris-9-10-11-x86-64-on-qemu/

By: 5to64bits

5to64bits — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 08:35:29 +0000

In reply to Simon.

For Qemu Default Networking, the Addresses are hard-coded:

10.0.2.15 guest-nic
255.255.255.0 subnet / netmasks
10.0.2.2 gateway
10.0.2.3 dns-server

s. wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 02 May 2020 22:13:33 +0000

any chance we can get a tutorial on how to setup a working network on solaris using Qemu?

By: boomer3200

boomer3200 — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 03:10:45 +0000

In reply to boomer3200. Sorry for the additional post: I found that de-selecting all the add-ons let the installer finish. The disk access on the harddrive seems okay and you can manually install the add-ons from the cd. Openstep works too.

By: boomer3200

boomer3200 — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 02:34:59 +0000

In reply to Mark. I pulled down the latest qemu today and on a whim decided to try installing Nextstep 3.3 on an emulated Sparcstation 5 with 256 mb of ram and a tcx framebuffer. I was able to complete the initial install multiple items, which was really neat to see. However, the installer locked upon when extracting additional packages (languages and add-ons) after rebooting. Using openfirmware and the Sun bios both produced the same results. I manually set the cd to unit 6 just in case the different qemu default was a factor, but still the problem persisted. Great to see the progress though!

By: neozeed

neozeed — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 04:27:28 +0000

In reply to bbslovag. Yep, I have 4.3.3 running on my 2006 Mac Pro! 16 minutes to install the BOS!

By: bbslovag

bbslovag — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:28:14 +0000

qemu-system-ppc*:

tyom updated his blog after a while:
http://tyom.blogspot.com/2019/04/aixprep-under-qemu-how-to.html

fug. mai ibm ppc powerseries 850 will be worthless.

By: Ulrich Gräpel

Ulrich Gräpel — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 17:31:37 +0000

In reply to Chandler.

OpenBios in the current version of Qemu (3.1.0) is still not able to boot Solaris. But thanx to Mark Cave-Ayland, in the meantime there is a fix available (https://www.ilande.co.uk/tmp/qemu/openbios-sparc32-ss1020fix). I gues it will be part of the next Qemu release.

I was able to directly boot Solaris (2.6 and 8) on an SS-20 using the fixed version of OpenBios instead of the original version.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 23:21:07 +0000

Hey,

I was just wondering if you were ever planning on doing a follow up to the Solaris QEMU stuff now that sun4u is supported (albeit still in beta)? I’d love to see a post on that sometime. I’ve not been able to find anyone else doing that online so far. Not with Solaris at least anyway.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 06:07:12 +0000

In reply to Chandler.

Well you will need to tell the SS-20 to use a SS-20 ROM so that makes perfect sense.

The generic ‘OpenBIOS’ ROM ought to be able to boot& install Solaris by now. It was a year+ ago, so you could try that if you Qemu is new enough.

I didn’t think of the 256MB RAM limit of the SS-5 being a thing, but yes, if you are going to try to run Solaris Cisco IOU stuff you will need plenty of RAM.

As a side note, unless you are into historical Cisco IOU, getting VIRL will get you ‘modern’ ish IOU IOS for x86 so you can run them on KVM/VMware if you want to… It’ll be a heck of a lot faster, that is for sure!

And of course there is dynamips!