Building and Installing QEMU on Solaris 10 or SXCE (Updated Jun 22, 2008)

Building and Installing QEMU on a Solaris 10 or SXCE Host (Updated July 03, 2008)

Update July 03, 2008

Updated kqemu-1.4.0pre1 (fix file name 1.0.4pre1 -> 1.4.0pre1)
and increase default monitor size from 32MB to 128MB.

Updated kqemu-1.3.0pre11 (fix file name 1.0.3pre11 -> 1.3.0pre11)
and increase default monitor size from 32MB to 128MB.

Intro:

QEMU with the TCG generator and KQEMU-1.4.0pre1 are used together, or
QEMU with the Dyngen generator and KQEMU-1.3.0pre11 are used together.
Do not mix the two code bases.

Prerequisites:

• QEMU TCG (Tiny Code Generator) source SVN version 0.9.1, June 22, 2008
• Use subversion to get the latest trunk - svn co svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk qemu

and 

• Optional KQEMU source TCG Enabled QEMU, version 1.4.0pre1, July 03, 2008 the i386/x86_64 kernel acceleration module

OR

• QEMU Dyngen Enabled source, version 0.9.1, December 11, 2007

and

• Optional KQEMU source for Dyngen Enabled QEMU, version 1.3.0pre11, July 03, 2008 the i386/x86_64 kernel acceleration module

• gcc3.4.x with the existing Dyngen code on the QEMU OpenSolaris
  Project page, gcc-3.4.x is required. with the current SVN TCG code, we may be able to use gcc4 or Studio 12.
• libSDL. Native on Solaris Express Build 62 or later; otherwise, you will need to roll your own from source, or install the Blastwave package. Note the Blastwave package is 32-bit only
• /usr/ccs/bin/ar - the library archiver
• /usr/sfw/bin/texi2html - convert texinfo files to html
• pod2man - from /usr/perl5/bin, or /opt/csw/bin if using Blastwave
• gmake - from /usr/sfw/bin, or /opt/csw/bin if using Blastwave
• ginstall - from /opt/csw/bin (CSWfileutils) or use --install=/usr/ucb/install

• Optional 
• Open Sound System. By default, QEMU can use SunAudio through libSDL, but the Open Sound System produces better results

Consult the dependencies page for more detailed information. Pre-packaged and patched sources are available from the downloads page.

Your path should look something like this if you're using Sun's provided GCC and libSDL (as is available on Solaris Express Build 62 or later):

 PATH=/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/perl5/bin

If you are compiling QEMU for a 64-bit host on Nevada Build 62 or later,
your path should look like:

 PATH=/usr/bin/amd64:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/perl5/bin

If you are using Sun's provided GCC and libSDL from Blastwave on a 32-bit host:

 PATH=/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/perl5/bin:/opt/csw/bin

If you are using Blastwave's gcc and libSDL:

 PATH=/opt/csw/gcc3/bin:/opt/csw/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/perl5/bin

If you are compiling QEMU for a 64-bit host and  you want to roll everything from source, then you will need the 64-bit version of sdl-config and Sun's GCC at the beginning of the path as follows:

 PATH=/opt/local/bin/amd64:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/perl5/bin:/opt/csw/bin

Building and Installing QEMU

If you're reading this page, you get the hint that you need to disable the gcc check, which assumes that you haven't read any of the documentation yet. Seeing as you're here, you are expected to be using a recommended gcc compiler...

32-bit:

 ./configure --prefix=/opt/qemu --target-list=i386-softmmu --disable-gcc-check

 gmake install

64-bit:

 ./configure --prefix=/opt/qemu  --target-list=x86_64-softmmu,i386-softmmu --disable-gcc-check

 gmake install

Note:  do not use any of the --sparc_cpu configure directives. They may not function as you expect on Solaris.  The defaults are working correctly on a Sparc processor running Solaris.

Building and Installing the KQEMU Module

(duplicating the contents of README.solaris in the kqemu tarball)

32-bit:

 ./configure

 gmake kqemu32

 gmake install32

 chmod 666 /dev/kqemu

64-bit:

 ./configure

 gmake kqemu64

 gmake install64

 chmod 666 /dev/kqemu