[OpenBIOS] Need help : sparc64 ULTRA5 under Solaris 7 64 bits

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 05/12/2018 08:32, BALARD Arnaud wrote:

> Bonjour, je vous envoie un mail car j'essaie de virtualiser une machine ULTRA5 sous
> solaris 7 en 64 bits.
> 
> j'ai réussi à démarrer sur un cd solaris 7 32bits pour restaurer les partitions sur
> mon disque virtuel (ufsrestore).
>  
> Quand j'essaie de démarrer avec qemu-system-sparc64 j'obtiens l'erreur "no valid
> state has been set by load or init-program" dans le prompt qemu "Not linux kernel
> image, Not a bootable ELF image, Not a bootable a.out image, Not a bootable FCode image"
> 
> au bout d'un certain nombre de test ma dernière commande ressemble à ca :
> 
> sparc64-softmmu#./qemu-system-sparc64 -M sun4u -bios
> /usr/local/share/qemu/openbios-sparc64 -m 256 -drive
> file=/home/qemu/QEMU_SRV/SRV.qcow2 -prom-env "auto-boot?=flase"
> 
> Je vois bien mon disque présent sur /pci at 1fe,0/pci at 1,1/ide at 3/ide at 0/disk at 0
> 
> est-t ‘il possible de virtualiser une machine ultra5 sous solaris 7 64bits ?
> 
> La barrière de ma machine réel ressemble à ca :
> 
> Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 400MHz),OpenBoot 3.25 256 MB....
> 
> J'ai entendu parler de ce patch : https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9175879/ ou
> est-ce qu'il y a une configuration à faire dans sparc64-softmmu ?
>
> Je ne sais pas si il peut m'aider à trouver mon bonheur.
>  
> Dans l'attente de votre réponse, merci.
>  
> ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>  
> Hello, I send you an email because I try to virtualize an ULTRA5 machine under
> solaris 7 in 64 bits.
> 
> I managed to boot on a cd solaris 7 32bits to restore the partitions on my virtual
> disk (ufsrestore).
> 
> When I try to start with qemu-system-sparc64 I get the error "no valid state has been
> set by load or init-program" in the qemu prompt "Not linux kernel image, Not a
> bootable ELF image, Not a bootable a.out image, Not a bootable Image mode "
> 
> after a certain number of tests my last command looks like this:
> 
> sparc64-softmmu#./qemu-system-sparc64 -M sun4u -bios
> /usr/local/share/qemu/openbios-sparc64 -m 256 -drive
> file=/home/qemu/QEMU_SRV/SRV.qcow2 -prom-env "auto-boot? = flase"
> 
> I can see my disk present on /pci at 1fe,0/pci at 1,1/ide at 3/ide at 0/disk at 0
> 
> is it possible to virtualize an ultra5 machine under solaris 7 64bits?
> 
> The barrier of my real machine looks like this:
> 
> Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA / PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 400MHz), OpenBoot 3.25 256 MB ....
> 
> I heard about this patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9175879/ or is there a
> configuration to do in sparc64-softmmu?
> 
> I do not know if he can help me find my happiness.
>  
> Looking forward to your reply, thank you.

Hi Arnaud,

Unfortunately qemu-system-sparc64 doesn't quite boot a 64-bit Solaris yet, but it is
fairly close - on a recent QEMU such as 3.0 you should be able to get well into
kernel boot, and sometimes close to userspace too. The remaining issues I hope to fix
up as time allows.

Given the error message above "no valid state has been set by load or init-program"
this means OpenBIOS cannot see the Solaris bootloader which suggests that there is a
problem in how you created your virtual disk images - maybe something isn't right
with the sun partition layout?

If you head over to the QEMU wiki at
https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/SPARC then you will find lots of links
at the bottom (and in particular
http://kb.networksystemssolutions.info/index.php/Sparc_Virtualization) which should
provide some help.


ATB,

Mark.