On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 02:28:16PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
I see qemu-system-sparc installed in fedora 18, so I'm now curious:
If I DDed the disk from an old sun workstation we have could I go into virt-manager and create a new virtual machine pointing at that disk image and saying it is a sparc architecture?
Or is it still more complicated than that to get anything other than x86 architectures to run? (Yes, I know it would be slow even if it did work :-).
You may as well try it, but I think you'd be extraordinarily fortunate if it actually worked.
As Cole said, it's unlikely that libvirt will be able to drive qemu-system-sparc correctly so your best bet would be to use the direct command line, ie:
qemu-system-sparc -M <something> -m <something> -hda /path/to/disk.img
If this doesn't work (and as I said I'd be surprised if it did) you will need to contact the qemu upstream community to work out what's going wrong.
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Rich.