On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 02:37:52PM +0100, Martin Matuska wrote:

AFAIK qemu supports some rudimentary sun4u emulation but emulates hardware that doesn't exist/work in reality (like a VGA card with VESA BIOS instead of FCode) or at least not in a combination reflecting a real machine, obviously so they could re-use some existing emulated PC components. Linux likely has some hacks to make this work but I doubt FreeBSD will run as is. If you give this a try your only chance currently would be to configure qemu to use a serial console but I still wouldn't hold my breath. I once used Simics to develop support for Ex000-class machines I hadn't access to myself. This basically worked but wasn't very usable due to bugs in the emulation of the SCSI HBA and the Sun Ethernet controller. Simics also supports emulating some machines like Blade 1500 are equipped with PC-like components like a bge(4) compatible NIC and a ATA controller in the first place, which I'd expect to be less buggy. I haven't tried this my self so far though.

Marius