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

[JP Hindin]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, Mike Spooner wrote:
> 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.

I did not know this - while I have a large array of Suns, the work I've 
done with them has actually been limited to very specific tasks and 
there's mountains of stuff that is "duh" to any Sun admin that I'm 
clueless about.

I appreciate this tip. I did a quick sniff for U10 prices and it looks 
like they're even higher than the U5s ($200-$700, depending on what idiot 
you're asking), but you never know when/where machines will turn up.

Thanks!

  - JP

> --------- 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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