Thursday, September 17, 2015

A few links

I'm too lazy to figure out how to add a blogroll with the theme I've chosen, so instead I'm going to post the blogs and resources I find and like here:


gunkies -lots of computing history and tutorials;
http://gunkies.org/wiki/Category:Operating_Systems
http://gunkies.org/wiki/Category:QEMU_Tutorials

neoseed's excellent blog and resources -a bit of everything;
http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/

A great blog by one of the developers of OpenBios; handy for doing things on qemu-sparc;
http://tyom.blogspot.com/

Firstworks systems; he explores a lot of 'nixes, mostly using vmware it seems:
http://systems.firstworks.com



I'm on a qemu kick, so here's a few pages about that!
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU
http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Networking#VDE

Useful exchange on stackexchange about sparc64 on qemu;
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/199827/booting-solaris-10-or-11-for-sparc-in-qemu-system-sparc64

Rodovan Brezula's experiences with qemu and sparc;
http://brezular.com/2012/02/12/qemu-installation-on-fedora-linux/
http://brezular.com/2012/02/17/installation-solaris-2-6-sparc-on-qemu-part2-solaris-installation/
http://brezular.com/2012/04/08/installation-solaris-sparc-2-6-sunos-5-6-on-qemu-part3-iou2net-pl-installation/


On a semi-related note, selecting the cpu for qemu-system-sparc64 is tricky, at least I found it to be. Here's how you do it.
Select your target cpu from the list, for instance;

Sparc Sun UltraSparc IV+ IU 003e001922000000 FPU 00000000 MMU 00000000 NWINS 8 +cmt 

for that one, you would ignore the leading "Sparc" and eveything after "IV+", so you end up with
-cpu "Sun UltraSparc IV+"

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