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# 1  
Old 06-07-2015
Solaris virtual machine SPARC?
Hello,

please, can somebody tell me if can i virtualize Solaris 11 SPARC architecture in a x86 PC?
Virtualbox allows doing that? i need to run Solaris 11 SPARC to make a lab, and dont have any SUN machine to do on it.

Thanks in advance!
# 2  
Old 06-08-2015
Emulator vs Virtualizer
Hey Muzi,
There is a difference between cross cpu and native cpu based virtual machines. What you want is Emulation. Qemu can do this. You may be more familiar with it on SuperNintendo sites than with Unix however. The reason is that there is a huge performance penalty translating between processor systems. In your case running sparc on x86 will be at least 10 times slower. If you have a 3 gigahertz Intel processor don't expect anything faster than a 300 megahertz sparc. And that is optimistic.

Also the setup is non trivial. I wanted to do it but still haven't done it for that exact reason.

Regards
# 3  
Old 06-08-2015
If you only want to make a lab, can't you use Solaris 11 x86 instead? That will run beautifully under VMWare for example...
# 4  
Old 06-08-2015
I think 64bit sparc solaris still can't be emulated. But you could run 32bit sparc Solaris 9 in Qemu.
Have a look at "Artyom Tarasenko's blog".
# 5  
Old 06-08-2015
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Originally Posted by cellarweasel
Also the setup is non trivial.
That's an understatement. AFAIK, there has been zero report of successful complete boot of Solaris on sun4u architecture. On SPARC, Solaris 11 kernel is 64 bit only.
# 6  
Old 06-16-2015
Hey, thanks all for answer. Im doing my engeneer tesis and i need to run solaris 11 with 1 solaris 9 zone. My tesis is about sparc architecture so thats the reason i need to virtualize it. But im considering get an old sparc machine to make the lab.
Any other idea?
thanks in advance
# 7  
Old 06-16-2015
If you are talking SPARC architecture then AFAIK a Solaris 9 zone (known as a legacy zone) is not supported on a Solaris 11 host (global zone).

However, if you used Solaris 10 as your host OS then setting up a Solaris 9 legacy zone on that is easy.
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