I'm trying to boot Solaris 10 or Solaris 11 for SPARC using qemu-system-sparc64 but keep running into problems early on. I'm using the DVD images sol-10-u11-ga-sparc-dvd.iso and sol-11_2-text-sparc.iso available from SUN's^WOracle's web site.Attempting Solaris 10:$ qemu-system-sparc64 -m 1024 -cdrom /tank/images/sol-10-u11-ga-sparc-dvd.iso -boot d -nographicOpenBIOS for Sparc64Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 0kernel cmdlineCPUs: 1 x SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIiUUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Mar 12 2015 08:09  Type 'help' for detailed informationTrying cdrom:f...Not a bootable ELF imageNot a bootable a.out imageLoading FCode image...Loaded 7420 bytesentry point is 0x4000Ignoring failed claim for va 1000000 memsz af6d6!Ignoring failed claim for va 1402000 memsz 4dcc8!Ignoring failed claim for va 1800000 memsz 510c8!Jumping to entry point 00000000010071d8 for type 0000000000000001...switching to new context: entry point 0x10071d8 stack 0x00000000ffe8aa09warning:interpret: exception -13 caughtCopyright (c) 1983, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.spacex@:interpret: exception -13 caughtinterpret h# d constant MMU_PAGESHIFT h# 0 constant TTE8K h# 20 constant SFHME_SIZE h# 0 constant SFHME_TTE h# 8 constant HMEBLK_TAG h# 0 constant HMEBLK_NEXT h# 2c constant HMEBLK_MISC h# 38 constant HMEBLK_HME1 h# 8 constant NHMENTS h# 7 constant HBLK_SZMASK h# 10 constant HBLK_RANGE_SHIFT h# 8 constant HMEBP_HBLK h# 1 constant HMEBLK_ENDPA h# 20 constant HMEBUCKET_SIZE h# 0 constant HTAG_SFMMUPSZ h# d constant HTAG_BSPAGE_SHIFT h# a constant HTAG_REHASH_SHIFT h# 3ff constant SFMMU_INVALID_SHMERID h# 3 ccould not find debugger-vocabulary-hook>threads:interpret: exception -13 caughtinterpret \ Copyright (c) 1995-1999 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.\ All rights reserved.\\ ident @(#)data64.fth 1.3     00/07/17 SMIhexonly forth also definitionsvocabulary kdbg-wordsalso kdbg-words definitionsdefer p@defer p!['] x@ is p@['] x! is p!8 constant ptrsized# 32 constant nbitsminorh# ffffffff constant maxmin\\ Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.\ Use is subject to license terms.\\ #pragma ident @(#)kdbg.fth   1.20    08/06/06 SMIh# 7ff constant v9biash# Unhandled Exception 0x0000000000000008PC = 0x0000000000000000 NPC = 0x0000000000000000Stopping executionqemu: fatal: Trap 0x0032 while trap level (5) >= MAXTL (5), Error statepc: 00000000ffd04640  npc: 00000000ffd04644%g0-3: 0000000000000000 00000000c40aaab5 00000000c3fb6875 00000000ffe11e38%g4-7: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000%o0-3: 000001fe020003f8 000001fff0080886 0000000000000000 0000000000000000%o4-7: 00000000ffeabc00 0000000000000000 00000000ffe812c1 000001fff000ccb8%l0-3: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000%l4-7: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000%i0-3: 0000000000000000 0000030000f8de5d 0000000000000000 0000000000000002%i4-7: 0000000000000012 00000000ffe8b000 00000000ffe81371 00000000ffd0c6c0%f00:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000%f08:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000%f16:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000%f24:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000%f32:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000%f40:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000%f48:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000%f56:  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000pstate: 00000015 ccr: 44 (icc: -Z-- xcc: -Z--) asi: 80 tl: 5 pil: 0cansave: 7 canrestore: 0 otherwin: 0 wstate: 0 cleanwin: 7 cwp: 1fsr: 0000000000000000 y: 0000000000000000 fprs: 0000000000000000Abort trapAttempting Solaris 11:qemu-system-sparc64 -m 1024 -cdrom /tank/images/sol-11_2-text-sparc.iso -boot d -nographicOpenBIOS for Sparc64Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 0kernel cmdlineCPUs: 1 x SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIiUUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Mar 12 2015 08:09  Type 'help' for detailed informationTrying cdrom:f...Not a bootable ELF imageNot a bootable a.out imageLoading FCode image...Loaded 6636 bytesentry point is 0x4000Ignoring failed claim for va 1000000 memsz c107e!Ignoring failed claim for va 1402000 memsz 5a6e0!Ignoring failed claim for va 1800000 memsz 52240!Jumping to entry point 00000000010071f8 for type 0000000000000001...switching to new context: entry point 0x10071f8 stack 0x00000000ffe8aa09'SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi' is not supported by this release of Solaris.EXIT0 >I have tried using the -cpu help option to find a supported CPU, but no matter what string I provide, it is not understood.Has anyone gotten original Solaris 10 or 11 to boot with sparc64 under QEMU?What else should I try?PS: It is not an option to buy SPARC hardware or emulate 32bit SPARC and ancient Solaris 9 or older or use Solaris x86.
Booting Solaris 10 or 11 for Sparc in qemu-system-sparc64
solaris;qemu;sparc