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

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

Should you want any Ultra 5 parts let me know, I have a decent quantity of
them and happy to send what you need for the shipping cost if that helps.

I realise the emulator may be also an interesting avenue to follow, I was
thinking of having a play myself and also had never heard of the.

Peter

Sent from my iPad

> On 8 Jan 2019, at 16:39, JP Hindin <jplist2008 at kiwigeek.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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