On 09/09/14 21:26, Miod Vallat wrote:
Interesting. Longer term the aim of the QEMU project is to move the
hardwired machine types into pluggable devices, e.g. you can build a whole
machine on the command line from multiple -device parameters or preload the
default machine types such as sun4u using instructions from a file. So while
this is not practical now without source hacks, it is likely to become
possible in the future.
Do not expect any support for the fanciest device combinations. While
most sparc64 systems will probably be able to cope with whatever
five-feet sheeps you can build, sparc32 qemu will happily attempt to
emulate systems which make no sense, physically, and dismissing reports
that BSD does not run on such artificial setups is annoying, to say the
least.
Oh sure. It was more to make a point that at some point the QEMU machine
will become ultimately more flexible, which I see as something useful
for development rather than production use. As I mentioned in one of my
earlier emails, my aim is to get the basic sun4u Ultra 5 machine good
enough to be able to run the main Linux/*BSD/Solaris OSs out of the box
so the final choices of hardware for the virtual device model will be
quite limited.
ATB,
Mark.
