[Aurora-sparc-user] running aurora in qemu on linux/x64-host?

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 21:19 +0100, Christoph Rupp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i'm trying to run aurora as a qemu guest on linux/x64 host.
> 
> this is how i run qemu:
> 
> **qemu-system-sparc -hda test.img -boot d -cdrom 
> AL-2.99-sparc-disc1.iso           
> 
> (test.img is an empty 2 GB image file).
> 
> aurora boots, the installer starts; it wants to check the installation 
> media, but then i get a lot of messages:
> ERROR: asr: reading /dev/sda[Input/output error]
> ERROR: opening "/dev/sda" (this message is repeated a lot of times).
> 
> I can still select a keyboard, but then the installer once prints 
> "ERROR: opening /dev/sda", and then it exits.

How did you make that test.img file? Try doing:

qemu-img create test.img 4G

(or something similar)

I'd also note a few things about qemu that I know of:

The X driver emulation is not terribly good, it locks up early. Try
doing a text mode install. Also, you can't boot the DVD image, the prom
emulation isn't smart enough.

~spot