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Successfully installed Solaris 10 sparc on KVM. However when I restarted the VM it doesn't go to login screen but just constantly reboots. I've read different documents link1 link2 link3 but none of their solutions helped. I used Ubuntu 12.04 and installed Solaris using Virt-Manager. I updated qemu-kvm to the latest version (2.0) as the one installed in Ubuntu is quite old. I have the following configuration below in setting up Solaris in virt-manager, if this helps.

ISO - sol-10-u11-ga-sparc-dvd.iso


Memory: 2GB
Processors: 1 
Hard Disk: raw, 
cache=writeback, IDE
Network: E1000
Sound: ac97
OS Type: Other OS types (other) choose Solaris 10
Boot order: Disk 'ide0', CD-ROM
Tablet for Pointer: No
Use local time for RTC: Yes

I had a similar problem with Solaris x86 after upgrading QEMU from 1.5.3 to 2.0.0. A quick git bisect session on QEMU source repository proved this commit to be the culprit:

target-i386: Set model=6 on qemu64 & qemu32 CPU models

Apparently Solaris 10 doesn't like this a lot (Solaris 11 works fine).

While this probably doesn't help your case a lot, you might want to try:

• doing a QEMU git bisect for your issue,


• downgrading QEMU to an older branch (unless you have your reasons to use version 2.0).

Solaris10 X86 works fine on new Qemu-3.1.0 and libvirt-4.9
I have tried to "backport" from VirtualBox to qemu but fail, a fresh install works well.

With the sparc version I have only fails..simply the boot process won't start.

I have installed from DVD and using the serial console,fs is ufs(not tried zfs but I think will work)

Remind: On some cpu may be not work fine and panic

If someone need,this is the xml dump,only edit the mac address with correct values,the disk image path and wathever you want.

<domain type='kvm' id='12'>
 <name>solaris10</name>
 <uuid>c76c491e-c264-4939-8333-835dae48405f</uuid>
 <title>solaris10</title>
 <description>Virtual machine solaris10 with serial</description>
 <memory unit='KiB'>3145728</memory>
 <currentMemory unit='KiB'>3145728</currentMemory>
 <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
 <resource>
 <partition>/machine</partition>
 </resource>
 <os>
 <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc'>hvm</type>
 <bootmenu enable='yes'/>
 </os>
 <features>
 <acpi/>
 </features>
 <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='partial'/>
 <clock offset='localtime'/>
 <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
 <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
 <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
 <devices>
 <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>
 <disk type='file' device='floppy'>
 <driver name='qemu'/>
 <target dev='fda' bus='fdc'/>
 <alias name='fdc0-0-0'/>
 <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
 </disk>
 <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
 <driver name='qemu'/>
 <target dev='hda' bus='ide' tray='open'/>
 <readonly/>
 <boot order='1'/>
 <alias name='ide0-0-0'/>
 <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
 </disk>
 <disk type='file' device='disk'>
 <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='unsafe'/>
 <source file='/home/myname/.local/share/libvirt/images/solaris10.qcow2'/>
 <backingStore/>
 <target dev='hdb' bus='ide'/>
 <boot order='2'/>
 <alias name='ide0-0-1'/>
 <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='1'/>
 </disk>
 <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'>
 <alias name='pci.0'/>
 </controller>
 <controller type='fdc' index='0'>
 <alias name='fdc0'/>
 </controller>
 <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'>
 <alias name='usb'/>
 <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x7'/>
 </controller>
 <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'>
 <alias name='usb'/>
 <master startport='0'/>
 <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/>
 </controller>
 <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci2'>
 <alias name='usb'/>
 <master startport='2'/>
 <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x1'/>
 </controller>
 <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'>
 <alias name='usb'/>
 <master startport='4'/>
 <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x2'/>
 </controller>
 <controller type='ide' index='0'>
 <alias name='ide'/>
 <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>
 </controller>
 <interface type='bridge'>
 <mac address='CH:AN:GE:ME:PL:EASE'/>
 <source bridge='bridge0'/>
 <target dev='vnet0'/>
 <model type='e1000'/>
 <alias name='net0'/>
 <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
 </interface>
 <serial type='pty'>
 <source path='/dev/pts/0'/>
 <target type='isa-serial' port='0'>
 <model name='isa-serial'/>
 </target>
 <alias name='serial0'/>
 </serial>
 <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/0'>
 <source path='/dev/pts/0'/>
 <target type='serial' port='0'/>
 <alias name='serial0'/>
 </console>
 <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'>
 <alias name='input0'/>
 </input>
 <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'>
 <alias name='input1'/>
 </input>
 <input type='tablet' bus='usb'>
 <alias name='input2'/>
 <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/>
 </input>
 <input type='keyboard' bus='usb'>
 <alias name='input3'/>
 <address type='usb' bus='0' port='2'/>
 </input>
 <graphics type='spice' port='5900' autoport='yes' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='it'>
 <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/>
 <gl enable='no' rendernode='/dev/dri/renderD128'/>
 </graphics>
 <video>
 <model type='vmvga' vram='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
 <alias name='video0'/>
 <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
 </video>
 <memballoon model='none'/>
 </devices>
</domain>