<html><head></head><body><div>Hi David,</div><div><br></div><div>On Sun, 2021-11-14 at 22:07 +1100, David Bannon wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>No, sorry, my system, Ubuntu 20.04 and qemu 4.2 does not like your vm image I am afraid.</div></blockquote><pre># aptitude show qemu-system-sparc </pre><pre>Package: qemu-system-sparc </pre><pre>Version: 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u1</pre><pre>State: installed</pre><pre>Automatically installed: no</pre><pre>Multi-Arch: foreign</pre><pre>Priority: optional</pre><pre>Section: otherosfs</pre><pre>Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team <<a href="mailto:pkg-qemu-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">pkg-qemu-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org</a>></pre><pre>Architecture: amd64</pre><pre>Uncompressed Size: 19.4 M</pre><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div> After a long wait (at 100% cpu) I see a login prompt but while the window grabs keyboard, the key strokes do not seem to be getting through. And still at 100% of a cpu. So, eventually, I killed it. (I don't have that password anyway !).</div></blockquote><div>I think I forgot to say that you need to use the serial rather than the VGA output of QEMU. </div><div>Use meny View/serial0 or hit Ctrl+Alt+3 (may need shift depending on keyboard).</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>So I thought I could build my own, I can see your recipe in your script. But cannot find that debian-11.0.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso you used. The wiki points to a Debian 10 one and other parts indicates its "floating around somewhere" on the sparc mailing list, but not so I can find it ! Sparc does not seem to be high on Debian's priority list these days ?</div></blockquote><div>This is also possible, but may take very long time.</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>If you can give me a pointer to that iso, I will have another try.....</div></blockquote><div>I see you already got it</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>So, thought I might try the same exercise on ppc64el - FPC322, builds pasdoc fine there, builds Lazarus but, interestingly, not lhelp. So, maybe thats something I need look into. But will have to be tomorrow, getting late here.</div></blockquote><div>I'm going anyway to check ppc64el for doublecmd on a porter machine, so I may test on it rather than building a qemu image.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(46, 52, 54); color: rgb(46, 52, 54); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span><pre>-- <br></pre><pre>Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir</pre></span></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></body></html>