Sparc64 System emulator — QEMU documentation

# Sparc64 System emulator

Use the executable `qemu-system-sparc64` to simulate a Sun4u (UltraSPARC PC-like machine), Sun4v (T1 PC-like machine), or generic Niagara (T1) machine. The Sun4u emulator is mostly complete, being able to run Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD in headless (-nographic) mode. The Sun4v emulator is still a work in progress.

The Niagara T1 emulator makes use of firmware and OS binaries supplied in the S10image/ directory of the OpenSPARC T1 project http://download.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/opensparc/OpenSPARCT1_Arch.1.5.tar.bz2 and is able to boot the disk.s10hw2 Solaris image.

    qemu-system-sparc64 -M niagara -L /path-to/S10image/ \
                        -nographic -m 256 \
                        -drive if=pflash,readonly=on,file=/S10image/disk.s10hw2

QEMU emulates the following peripherals:

- UltraSparc IIi APB PCI Bridge

- PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions

- PS/2 mouse and keyboard

- Non Volatile RAM M48T59

- PC-compatible serial ports

- 2 PCI IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support

- Floppy disk