How to Virtualize Sparc Solaris 8

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> I haven't done it, but QEMU should do it. qemu has sparc,
> sparc32plus, and sparc64 architectures available, as well as
> alpha, arm, arm-eb, m68K, mips, mips-el, ppc, ppc64, and sh4.
> 
> Grab a Solaris install CD and try it out.
> 
> http://tyom.blogspot.com/2009/12/solaris-under-qemu-how-to.html
> might help.

Oh ... apparently the emulation is immature, or poor, or incomplete ... It
seems running solaris up to 6 is ok, but solaris 8 on the sparc in qemu
(which is the requirement here) is almost undoable.  It'll only run in
"minimal" mode... Which is severely impaired...  Not really an OS at that
point...

Thanks for the suggestion though.