Subject: Re: Solaris/x86 emulation?
To: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
From: Matt Ragan <mragan@dev.tivoli.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/22/1998 23:09:16
Christoph Badura wrote:

> gorgonio@nexos.com.br (Gorgonio Araujo) writes:
>
> >Hello people! Does NetBSD/i386 emulate Solaris/x86? Iīd like to use Lotus
> >Domino under a PC UNIX and I prefer to use NetBSD than Solaris, but,
> >unfortunatly there isnīt a NetBSD version of Lotus server.
>
> NetBSD has a pretty good Solaris emulation.  However, we don't supply
> Solaris compatible shared libraries.  You'd have to get the from a
> Solaris system.  See the compat_svr4 man page for details on how to set this
> up.
> --
> Christoph Badura

Even if you were to get the libraries, NetBSD does not support the kernel threads
that Notes uses under Solaris, so you will not be able to run Notes under NetBSD at
the present time.