QEMU SPARC compatibility

Nathan_S

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I'm just curious if there's any future plans to enable SPARC emulation.

All the qemu documentation leads one to use "qemu-system-sparc", but on current 4.1.2:

Code:
# apt-get install qemu-system-sparc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
qemu-system-sparc : Depends: libspice-server1 (>= 0.12.5)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Deeper check on the missing dep:
Code:
# apt-get install libspice-server1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libopus0 pve-kernel-4.2.6-1-pve
Suggested packages:
  opus-tools
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  proxmox-ve pve-container pve-ha-manager pve-libspice-server1 pve-manager pve-qemu-kvm qemu-server spiceterm
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libopus0 libspice-server1 pve-kernel-4.2.6-1-pve
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 8 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 44.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 16.3 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

One might ask why, but I've got a handful of legacy machines I'd love to decommission if I could migrate their OS successfully. Might stand up debian on bare metal and have a go at it.

For those unaware: http://wiki.qemu.org/SPARC
 

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