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

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 15/03/16 12:22, 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 .
> 
>  
> 
> 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 .
> 
> 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

Hi Tej,

Seems like you didn't get my reply for some reason? Fortunately it's
still listed in the archives at
https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/openbios/2016-March/009283.html.

Please let us know if you have any further questions :)


ATB,

Mark.