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color:#1F497D'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> bblisa-bounces@bblisa.org
[mailto:bblisa-bounces@bblisa.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Edward Ned Harvey<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Peter Galvin'; Bblisa@Bblisa. Org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [BBLISA] How to Virtualize Sparc Solaris 8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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 …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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 …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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 … <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Peter Galvin [mailto:pbg@cptech.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 25, 2010 8:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Edward Ned Harvey; Bblisa@Bblisa. Org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [BBLISA] How to Virtualize Sparc Solaris 8<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hi
Ned,<br>
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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.<br>
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--Peter<br>
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On 2/25/10 7:37 PM, "Edward Ned Harvey" <<a
href="bblisa3@nedharvey.com">bblisa3@nedharvey.com</a>> wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Thanks.</span> <span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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