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Qemu can run SPARC binaries and emulate a full SPARC system enough to run Solaris 2.6. Qemu can emulate Loongarch as well!

• anthk 10mo ago
  I know, but I would love to have it transparently, similar to some IOCCC guy that wrote a userland emulator to run Unix V4-v7 and up to BSD 2.1 binaries seamlessly. Similar to FreeBSD and NetBSD's compat(8) approach.
  • bitwize 10mo ago
    So you want CPU emul and a kernel personality. Kind of a tall ask, especially since you'll need much of Solaris anyway to run those vintage binaries.
    • anthk 10mo ago
      See this: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/Apout https://github.com/DoctorWkt/Apout X11 calls can be just forwarded to the currently running server in your machine. The rest, yes, it must be implemented. PD: I'm not saying IE for Unix would run under that; Solaris it's pretty much post BSD 2.1 and maybe from another Unix branch. But code from NetBSD could be adapted for such task.
    • yjftsjthsd-h 10mo ago
      We have: * illumos * binfmt (Assuming a Linux host) * qemu I'm not saying it's zero work, but this looks entirely solvable.