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I'm gooning around with different architectures in Virtual Box, and can't seem to find
.iso's for SPARC64 and PPC64 ...
how do I go about installing Fedora for those two ...
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Fedora SPARC/PPC installs?
I'm gooning around with different architectures in Virtual Box, and can't seem to find
.iso's for SPARC64 and PPC64 ...
how do I go about installing Fedora for those two architectures??
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I don't believe Fedora provides installation media for any non x86 architectures except ppc.
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VirtualBox does not support non-X86 virtualization.
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how do you install them then? I know I have seen and used Fedora on SPARC systems before.
there are packages for sparc for Fedora 9 but I dont know how youd install them
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You need to download the ISO image and burn it to a CD. Then you can boot your Spark/PPC system from the CD and install it.
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sparc/ppc are CPU architecture types that are in certain machines, read: sun hardware/mac hardware predominantly and respectively
most virtualization will only run same as host CPU archs, but some don't
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I missed the VirtualBox bit on the first posting... doh! Need new glasses I think, and some new brain cells as well.
Anyway, on x86 hosts, you can only run x86 clients w/ VirtualBox, though x86 Solaris works just dandy (I do Solaris kernel driver development that way). However, VirtualBox cannot emulate a different hardware architecture except that it can run 32-bit or 64-bit x86 operating systems on an x86 host. To run a Sparc fedora, you would need to be running Solaris on a Sparc processor as a host, but I'm not sure that Sun/Oracle's virtual server manager will let you do that. Their web site wasn't clear. To run a PPC fedora, you would need a PPC and appropriate virtualization code. Again, you need to do some research about that. In any case, True cross-platform virtualzation is difficult, and probably expensive, and slow.Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
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Oh..... well dang.
I guess I missed that part of the Virtual Box rules.
so, where do I get a SPARC64 processor machine!
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eBay!
You should be able to get one there for a reasonable amount of $$. Anysystems.com have good prices and post quite a bit (or used to) on eBay.
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you can find a cheap second hand Sun Ultra5 (UltraSparc64 IIi) instead ppc64 are more expansive altough a POWER3 II is a quite old cpu.
Originally Posted by Arkhan 
Oh..... well dang.
I guess I missed that part of the Virtual Box rules.
so, where do I get a SPARC64 processor machine!
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