Re: [OpenBIOS] Solaris anyone?

[Nick Couchman]

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 19:03 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 25/04/11 18:10, Nick Couchman wrote:
> > Awesome - seems to work, at least it has picked up a DHCP address!  I'm
> > going to play with it and see if I can get a few other things (NFS
> > client, SSH, etc.) to work correctly!
>
> Great - let us know how you get on :D

SSH and NFS are working.  I'm going to try to test out one of the
applications - an ADA debugger - that we routinely run on the
Solaris/Sparc platform to see how that works.

Also, just a note - graphical console does not want to start, so I have
to start with the -nographic option to boot correctly.  This is fine,
except that it pretty much precludes running qemu in the background,
unless someone wants to give me a hint or two on a background-friendly
method of running that doesn't cause the Solaris instance to lock-up.
VNC did not work so well.  Maybe there's something I could add to the
boot prompt to force Solaris into a serial/text-only mode?

Did the serial port patch ever get checked off and pushed to SVN?

-Nick

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Solaris anyone?

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 25/04/11 19:58, Nick Couchman wrote:
> SSH and NFS are working.  I'm going to try to test out one of the
> applications - an ADA debugger - that we routinely run on the
> Solaris/Sparc platform to see how that works.

Fantastic - that sounds really promising!
> Also, just a note - graphical console does not want to start, so I have
> to start with the -nographic option to boot correctly.  This is fine,
> except that it pretty much precludes running qemu in the background,
> unless someone wants to give me a hint or two on a background-friendly
> method of running that doesn't cause the Solaris instance to lock-up.
> VNC did not work so well.  Maybe there's something I could add to the
> boot prompt to force Solaris into a serial/text-only mode?

In terms of graphics, there is definitely some work that needs to be 
done. For example, if I try and run the Solaris installer from the VNC 
viewer then rather than launching the installer it outputs "Starting 
OpenWindows" and then freezes. Then again, this is not something that is 
really on my priority list (as my aim was to virtualise a headless 
server) so it's unlikely to happen in the short term.

For running QEMU in this way, have you seen Artyom's post here? 
http://tyom.blogspot.com/2010/04/ultimate-way-of-starting-qemu-under.html.
> Did the serial port patch ever get checked off and pushed to SVN?

No, not yet. Once Blue has approved both patches then I'll send them up 
to the SVN repository.

ATB,

Mark.