[BBLISA] How to Virtualize Sparc Solaris 8

[Grant Young]

Sounds like a hobby project.  Like building a Wright Flyer.

Solaris 8 branded containers work pretty well.  I would think that a semiconductor company should be able to pay at least the minimal support to use them.

Time to move on.  

On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Rudie, Tony wrote:

> Sun (when they were still Sun) came here 6 months ago and claimed they were doing SPARC-Solaris IaaS cloud offerings, but I sure can’t find it on their web site.    
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>  - Tony Rudié
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> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:43 PM
> To: 'Peter Galvin'; Bblisa at Bblisa. Org
> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] How to Virtualize Sparc Solaris 8
>  
> Ahhh…  The tricky part is not how to install solaris 8 … The tricky part is emulating the sparc processor on intel hardware.  Maybe I have to buy a modern sparc system…  Or more likely, I’m back to getting an old $150 box from craigslist instead of a new $10k server that’ll be used for 20 minutes a year …
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> Does anybody offer Sparc cloud servers?  Rent a box for 1 hour, pay Two Dollars.  That would be nice…  I’ll have to poke around and see if I can find somewhere now …
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> I have seen some articles suggesting qemu for sparc emulation, and I’ve seen as many articles saying how horribly it doesn’t work.  I think I’ll try it at least a little bit, so I can say I made the effort, didn’t leave that stone unturned … 
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> From: Peter Galvin [mailto:pbg at cptech.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 8:20 PM
> To: Edward Ned Harvey; Bblisa at Bblisa. Org
> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] How to Virtualize Sparc Solaris 8
>  
> Hi Ned,
> 
> The “official” way is to install a Solaris 8 container within Solaris 10. Note that this is a commercial solution – you have to pay for S8 support and S10 support on the box on which you do this.
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> --Peter
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> On 2/25/10 7:37 PM, "Edward Ned Harvey" <bblisa3 at nedharvey.com> wrote:
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> Working at semiconductor companies, it seems to be a common request, that we need to obtain some sparc solaris 8 machine to run a memory compiler.  In the past, I’ve solved this by begging local IT depts for their garbage, and build one of these machines.  I’d very much like to improve this.
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> Does anybody know of any way to create a sparc solaris 8 machine modern day?  Whether virtual or otherwise ... Preferably virtual.
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> Thanks.
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