Hi,

I got a a SUN Ultra Enterprise 3500 with 4 SPARC CPUs and 4GB RAM ...

I'd like to migrate my current system to this machine. Current machine is a
normal PC with Linux/VServer and one Windows inside VMWare. I need to do
this step by step.

Is there a good i386 emulator for Solaris on Sparc? What about the system
resources? 4GB and 4*400Mhz SPARC enough?

Thank you,
Peter

Peter Mairhofer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got a a SUN Ultra Enterprise 3500 with 4 SPARC CPUs and 4GB RAM ...
>
> I'd like to migrate my current system to this machine. Current machine is a
> normal PC with Linux/VServer and one Windows inside VMWare. I need to do
> this step by step.
>
> Is there a good i386 emulator for Solaris on Sparc?
<snip>

No! Please feel free to write one. Keep in mind, however, that i386
machines are so readily and cheaply available that there will be little
market for such a tool.

Peter Mairhofer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got a a SUN Ultra Enterprise 3500 with 4 SPARC CPUs and 4GB RAM ...
>
> I'd like to migrate my current system to this machine. Current machine is a
> normal PC with Linux/VServer and one Windows inside VMWare. I need to do
> this step by step.
>
> Is there a good i386 emulator for Solaris on Sparc? What about the system
> resources? 4GB and 4*400Mhz SPARC enough?
>
Enough for what? Just migrate to Solaris on an x86 server.

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On 27 Okt., 01:47, Peter Mairhofer <63832...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got a a SUN Ultra Enterprise 3500 with 4 SPARC CPUs and 4GB RAM ...
>
> I'd like to migrate my current system to this machine. Current machine is a
> normal PC with Linux/VServer and one Windows inside VMWare. I need to do
> this step by step.
>
> Is there a good i386 emulator for Solaris on Sparc? What about the system
> resources? 4GB and 4*400Mhz SPARC enough?
>
> Thank you,
> Peter

Get one of the PCI cards what have an intel CPU on board.
But for me its hard to understand why anybody would migrate from a
nice PC to
such an old and noisy system.

On Oct 26, 1:47 pm, Peter Mairhofer <63832...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Is there a good i386 emulator for Solaris on Sparc? What about the system
> resources? 4GB and 4*400Mhz SPARC enough?

I believe Bochs was ported to Solaris; google for it.

The memory is fine but the CPUs will kill you. Your single-threaded
apps (like the emulator) will only run at 400MHz and the performance
will be unacceptable (especially since Bochs is a full-on emulator and
not just virtualization like VMWare).

On Oct 26, 1:47 pm, Peter Mairhofer <63832...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Is there a good i386 emulator for Solaris on Sparc? What about the system
> resources?

I posted earlier (haven't seen it come through yet) but I forgot there
is another emulator project, QEMU, that may help. Support for Sparc
in testing.

In article <1193691548.578765.320000@50g2000hsm.googlegroups. com>,
Jim Leonard <MobyGamer@gmail.com> writes:
> On Oct 26, 1:47 pm, Peter Mairhofer <63832...@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Is there a good i386 emulator for Solaris on Sparc? What about the system
>> resources? 4GB and 4*400Mhz SPARC enough?
>
> I believe Bochs was ported to Solaris; google for it.
>
> The memory is fine but the CPUs will kill you. Your single-threaded
> apps (like the emulator) will only run at 400MHz and the performance
> will be unacceptable (especially since Bochs is a full-on emulator and
> not just virtualization like VMWare).
>

qemu works a little better, IMO; but it would still be intolerably slow.

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In article <1193692767.145616.73060@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.c om>,
Jim Leonard <MobyGamer@gmail.com> writes:
> On Oct 26, 1:47 pm, Peter Mairhofer <63832...@gmx.net> wrote:
>> Is there a good i386 emulator for Solaris on Sparc? What about the system
>> resources?
>
> I posted earlier (haven't seen it come through yet) but I forgot there
> is another emulator project, QEMU, that may help. Support for Sparc
> in testing.

That's as in executing SPARC code, I think; executing x86 on SPARC has
worked well enough for me, save that the SPARC CPUs typically are not
fast enough - for emulation, one has to be a good deal faster than what
one wants to emulate.

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