Probing Memory Bank #0 32 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #1 32 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #2 32 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #3 32 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #4 32 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #5 32 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #6 32 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #7 32 Megabytes Incorrect configuration checksum Setting NVRAM parameters to default values. Ttya initialized Probing Memory Bank #0 32 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #1 32 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #2 32 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #3 32 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #4 32 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #5 32 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #6 32 Megabytes Probing Memory Bank #7 32 Megabytes Incorrect configuration checksum Setting NVRAM parameters to default values. $$$$$ WARNING: No Keyboard Detected! $$$$$ MMU Context Table Reg Test MMU Context Register Test MMU TLB Replace Ctrl Reg Tst MMU Sync Fault Stat Reg Test MMU Sync Fault Addr Reg Test MMU TLB RAM NTA Pattern Test ERROR : Address= 000000fc, exp= 07ffffdc, obs= 00000000, xor= 07ffffdc initializing TLB initializing cacheĪllocating SRMMU Context Table Setting SRMMU Context Register Setting SRMMU Context Table Pointer Register Allocating SRMMU Level 1 Table Mapping RAM Mapping ROM hda 36GB.disk -m 256 -M SS-5 -cdrom sol-8-u7-install-sparc.iso qemu-system-sparc -bios ss5.bin -nographic -L. Now the next step is to fire up Qemu with the Solaris 8 CDROM.

I’m running this on OS X, however the steps are all the same for Linux & Windows users. qemu-img create -f qcow2 36GB.disk 36GB Formatting ’36GB.disk’, fmt=qcow2 size=38654705664 encryption=off cluster_size=0 The first step is to create the hard disk. I’m going to assume you’ve got all the bits to make Solaris on Qemu work. Now I’ve had issues with Solaris 2.6’s format program so I also use a Solaris 8 CD for that portion.

So in this quick example we’ll add a 36GB disk to Qemu for use with Solaris 2.6 However if you go ahead with a 3rd party disk, you’ll have to do this yourself. When you buy disks from SUN they did this at the factory. This applies to Qemu and real SPARC’s… Anyways, every disk that Solaris uses has to be tagged with a special ‘format’ and disk label for use.

Solaris formatted floppy disks