Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 17:06:18 +1030 (CST) From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SysVR4 emulator Message-ID: <199901300636.RAA20114@atdot.dotat.org>
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I've just committed the FreeBSD svr4 emulator, which has been built
by adapting the stirling work of Christos Zoulas from the NetBSD project
to FreeBSD.
I hope I haven't left anything out or broken the world, but I'm sure
I'll hear about it if I have :-)
To use it:
1. Add "pseudo-device streams" to your kernel config file and rebuild,
reboot.
2. Build and install the svr4 module in /sys/modules/svr4
3. Type "svr4" to start it up.
4. Grab compat_sol26.tar.gz or compat_svr4.tar.gz from
http://www.freebsd.org/~newton/freebsd-svr4 and install them in
/compat/svr4
5. Run "sh SVR4_MAKEDEV all" in /compat/svr4/dev
6. Mount a Solaris/x86 CD-ROM on /cdrom
7. Brand any executables you want to run
8. See if they work.
It's early days yet, folks -- You'll probably have trouble getting 100%
functionality out of most things (specifically, poll() on a socket doesn't
look like it works at the moment, so Netscape doesn't work (among other
things)). Patches will be appreciated.
I'll be putting the compat_*.tar.gz archives into /usr/share/examples
with a README file RSN (I haven't written a Makefile for them yet,
though, hence the delay).
Regards,
- mark
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