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Re:Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and Nvram by shrubble on Monday March 09, 2026 @01:49PM (#47312579)
QEMU has a SPARC CPU emulator; it might be possible to run the operating system and database in a VM on regular x86-64 hardware.
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Re:Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX Part 1: PSU and Nvram by greatquux on Monday March 09, 2026 @03:44PM (#47314391)
You absolutely can run 32bit Solaris in qemu SPARC emulation. 64bit is not there yet unfortunately. But definitely dd this and get it virtualized!
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