Re: Sparc: "emulate" it on x86 (windows, linux) & run solaris 10. Anyone done it?



On 01/18/2012 10:06 PM, David Combs wrote:
What with Oracle hardware being so expensive, plus not making
any workstations, how about EMULATING a sparc on x86?

Running solaris 10.

Has anyone here actually done that? Or know anyone who has?

My employer runs a commercial version of VMware that emulates an 8-cpu T5240 on a big PC box and it runs Solaris 10 without problems. (It is also two orders of magnitude slower than a real one).
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