From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 4: 1:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C55337B401 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 04:01:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from grillolja.cs.umu.se (grillolja.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 774B143ED8 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 04:01:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id 108A79FA3; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:01:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from kvist.cs.umu.se (kvist.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.192]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by grillolja.cs.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5ED9FA1; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:01:21 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:01:21 +0100 (MET) From: Paul Everlund To: Miguel Mendez Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SunOS & SPARC In-Reply-To: <20021230124715.28dee227.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new amavisd-new-20020630 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote: Thanks for your reply. > On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 12:40:58 +0100 (MET) > Paul Everlund wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Is it possible to run SunOS-binaries compiled on a SPARC on i386 > > FreeBSD? Are there some kind of emulation program for this? > > No, the "COMPAT_SUNOS" kernel option deals only with syscall (ABI) > compat. I'm not aware of any sparc emulation package. Your best bet > would be (if possible) to ssh/telnet/whathaveyou into a sparc box and > run the software there. Which program are you intending to run? Maybe > there's some opensource equivalent in the FreeBSD ports. I have a SPARC box, but thought of running proprietary SunOS-SPARC- binaries on a much better FreeBSD box (better because it's easier to maintain, upgrade packages and so on, on FreeBSD than SunOS). Guess I'll have to stick with the SPARC. Best regards, Paul > Cheers, > -- > Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net > GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt > EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk > Of course it runs NetBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message