Re: qemu-system-sparc stays "parked"?

[Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2026 at 2:41 AM John D. Baker <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2026, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 4:32 PM John D. Baker <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost> wrote:
> > >
> > > So, single-processor SS-20 with max RAM it is.
> >
> > I used something between 256 and 512 mb ram for qemu-system-sparc guest ...
>
> I'll give that a try when my build host is done with its current tasks.
>
> The hope was to emulate a bigger, faster machine than I physically have.
> I have 2 real SS-5/110 systems w/256MB each (and 2 real SS-20s with
> 448MB plus 4MB VSIMM each--one with dual SM-61s and the other with a
> single dual-CPU ROSS HyperSPARC module at 125MHz.  I just have nowhere
> to get the SS-20s out and set them up (plus power/heat issues)).
>
> > Then I added second disk and set it up in guest as swap.
>
> My disk image is 9.1GB and partition "b" is configured as swap.  Is there
> advantage to using a separate disk (image) for swap?

Not sure, I just configured a bit too small disk initially ... swap
disk was in tmpfs (on Linux host, but NetBSD does have tmpfs too)

I also set up ccache/distcc  between two qemu instances, but via vde2
(not available on NetBSD as far as I can see)

It worked, but bigger packages wanted plenty of ram even for just one cc ...

So I ended up just manually restarting gcc compile, only to find it
fail eventually.


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