[rescue] Sol7 x86 Sol 7 hardware support help

[Jerry Kemp]

What ever happened with this?

I was curious, if for nothing else, to find out what application the OP had that 
was Solaris 7 specific.

Jerry


On 01/20/14 09:47 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> On 01/17/14 06:26 PM, simon at livve4u.com wrote:
>> it must be 7 as software am using was designed for 7 x86 :(
>
> Could you please share what your Solaris 7 application is?  And possibly provide
> some back story as to why this application will only run on Solaris 7?
>
> I (personally) have had very good luck with Sun's Application Binary guarantee.
>   I have one application that was compiled on Solaris 2.6 that still runs fine
> today on Solaris 10 & 11.1.
>
>
>
>>
>> If you can't find hardware from the Solaris 7 HCL, your best bet might
>> be to get Solaris 8 to run in a branded zone/container on modern Solaris
>> with the migration tool.
>
>
> If his application can truly only run correctly on Solaris 7, VirtualBox might
> be the way for him to go.   I believe what you are describing here is the Sun
> project Etude, which allowed administrators to run a Solaris 8 (and later
> Solaris 9) in a Solaris 10 zone.  Solaris 11 has a similar function which allows
> for the running of Solaris 10 in a Solaris 11.x zone.  My understanding is that
> etude is/was Sparc only.
>
> <https://web.archive.org/web/20100104190323/http://blogs.sun.com/dp/entry/project_etude_revealed>
>
>
> <https://web.archive.org/web/20100105175057/http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/what_is_etude>
>
>
> <https://web.archive.org/web/20090605165017/http://www.blastwave.org/articles/BLS-0065/index.html>
>
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