(sorry for the duplicate mark)
Excellent :) In fact, latest OpenBIOS SVN has a fix for the scsi-options part (it adds an extra property which gets picked up by the Solaris ESP driver) and so you shouldn't have to do this any more. Any testing gratefully received though!
Yes - there is currently an issue with the Sun shell which causes OpenBIOS to select the wrong build settings. See Nathan's second thread here: http://lists.openbios.org/pipermail/openbios/2011-April/006389.html. If you could test the fix suggested at the end of the thread and report back to the mailing list, that would be greatly appreciated :)
As soon as I can test this I'll report back. Unfortunately, I won't be able to copy logs & the like as it's on an air-gapped network, but I'll do what I can to give pertinent details.
That's interesting, since the guest should have no knowledge of the
underlying storage mechanism being using in the host. Can you point to any more specific error messages (again, back on the list) to help people work out what is happening?
Not a problem.
In return, thank you for testing. It really is exciting to be close to the
point where QEMU can run SPARC Solaris out of the box - I have already used it to great effect here and I know other people are excited to be able to move applications of legacy hardware onto something a lot more modern.
Out of curiosity, how likely is it that qemu-sparc32 could be used to run a solaris-based statically-linked user-mode application?
-Brian