Re: Status

[Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>]

On 07/04/16 10:12, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> Hi Michael!
> 
>> On Apr 7, 2016, at 10:43 AM, Michael-John Turner <mj@mjturner.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>
>> I believe that will only work on x86 systems - KVM isn't supported on SPARC.
>> QEMU has some early emulation support for 64-bit SPARC hardware but it's
>> not really usable yet[1].
> 
> The document you linked is over 6 years old! sparc64 emulation is pretty usable already, I have installed the sparc64 netinst images that I built without any problems.

Wow, yes. The link you've posted below references a snapshot from the
documentation for QEMU 0.12 which is, well, old. I recently submitted an
update which can be found in the automated builds here:
http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html#Sparc64-System-emulator.


ATB,

Mark.