[OpenBIOS] Request to help for Sparc arch - Solaris vm creation.

[Programmingkid]

On Mar 15, 2016, at 8:22 AM, Lsrtej P wrote:

> Hi  Openbios team, 
> 
> First of all I would like to thank you for the contribution to opensource community which is helping lot of developers like me to progress professionally. 
> 
> It would be great if you can help me with the problem I am facing with using qemu with openbios . 
> 
> I am trying to create a solaris  environment with sparc architecture  on an ubuntu 14.04  linux OS with help of qemu-system-sparc . 
> 
> When I am trying to load a solaris image using this qemu-system-sparc64 i am getting the following  error message . 
> 
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> When I tried debugging it I found that the openbios-sparc is not installed in ubuntu machine I am working with . 
> 
> This qemu-system-sparc64 uses a softlink which points to the directory /usr/share/qemu/openbios-sparc64 which is not found in the machine . 
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> I am stuck here , I am not sure what should be the contents of the above directory so that this sparc emulation works good . 
> 
> I tried to install the openbios from your official  website but failed in using it along with qemu . 
> 
> Can you please help me to get out of this situation or suggest me some way to create a 64 bit sparc solaris environment on linux os . 
> 
> Thanks in advance :) 
> 
> Warm Regards, 
> Tej 

I tried to make a sparc32 and a sparc64 binary, but I saw a bunch of errors instead. Just to go past the 'switch-arch' stage, I had to rename sparc32_config.xml to sparc_config.xml. The build system for sparc might need a little fixing.