[rescue] Sun Ultra5 emulation, was: more sun2 adventures!

[Mike Spooner]

An Ultra-5 disk will work as-is in an Ultra-10 - direct transplant. I
only mention this as my 20-year-old overclocked (472MHz) Ultra-10, still
fully working, went to a new home and owner in December, after serving me
faithfully for 14 years.

-- Mike Spooner

--------- Original Message ---------
From: JP Hindin
To: The Rescue List
Date: Tue Jan 08 16:39:39 GMT+00:00 2019
Subject: [rescue] Sun Ultra5 emulation, was: more sun2 adventures!
On Sun, 6 Jan 2019, Walter Belgers wrote:
> harddisk, using the tme Sun emulator and original tapes. I have played
some
> more with tme, to try to install other versions of SunOS on a virtual
disk. It
> turns out that tme is - even after patching - quite picky. I could not
do a

Greetings all;

The post by Walter had me thinking laterally and I wanted to query the
list for thoughts. I hadn't even heard of tme, so I didn't know there was
a viable Sun emulator - although based on tme's documentation and
Walter's
mail, it appears it is finicky.

Is there software that would allow me to emulate a Sun Ultra 5 running
Solaris 7? I'd be willing to pay for it - although probably not
$Infinite.
The Sun E10k uses an Ultra 5 as a front end system (SSP, System Service
Processor) and I've gone through two of them over the last few years (bad
PSU, and I'm not sure what's going on this time). While most of the SSP
tools are just fairly simple daemons sending commands via an ethernet
interface and I'm confident could be rewritten based on sniffing, I'm not
sure I'm that brave.

But an emulator that would allow me to boot up a working disk image and
supported networking would be wonderful. I can lose x86 boxes to my
heart's content and never feel bad about it. Replacement parts are (for
the foreseeable future) plentiful, and so on.

Does such a thing conveniently exist?

My thanks;

- JP
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