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From: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby)
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Subject: Re: Solaris x86 emulation
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> Greetings,
> 	Any chance that Solaris x86 binaries would run on FreeBSD?  I
> didn't see anything in the tree, but thought I'd ask around before
> trying to make {Open,Net}BSD's Solaris emulator work with FreeBSD...
> Specifically, I'd like to get CDE or Wabi running, if my license
> allows it....

I already responded to Warner privately, but I thought I'd briefly comment to 
hackers as well.  Unfortunately, there are only so many hours in the day, and I 
never did get around to attempting to integrate NetBSD's SVR4 emulation into 
FreeBSD.

However, I did try NetBSD/sparc, and it was able to run Solaris Netscape and 
other binaries, once I copied the Solaris and OpenWindows shared libraries over. 
 And basically, that's going to be your problem, even if you can get WABI to run 
on FreeBSD/NetBSD, you're going to need to buy a copy of Solaris/x86 in order to 
get the shared libraries you need.  On SunSite, I remember seeing GPL'd versions 
of libc for Linux's SVR4 emulation, but that still leaves OpenWindows.

If you want CDE, you can buy a copy from http://www.xinside.com/.
You can get WABI for Linux from http://www.caldera.com/

Either of those is going to be feasible to run under FreeBSD, whereas the 
Solaris/x86 versions aren't.  Of course, if you can get an academic discount, 
you can go the route I did and just buy Solaris (less than $150).  It's a bit 
slow sometimes on my 486, but I live with it because I'm doing Solaris 
development, and I really like Sun's WorkShop environment.

Cheers,
Jake