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

[JP Hindin]

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