This is a dockerized SPARC Solaris 2.6 container which relies on QEMU's usermode networking and therefore requires no capabilities or additional privileges to work. This setup relies on no external volume mapping, and in theory it will work on a swarm.
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grab the Solaris 2.6 CD Image and extract the ISO to
iso/solaris-2.6.iso -
Run
docker-compose build
You should now have a base image:
docker image ls
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
qemu-sparc latest 08ec3475e3ec 23 minutes ago 1.89GB
...
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Add the ISO to it:
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docker-compose run -v $(pwd)/iso:/mnt/iso sol cp /mnt/iso/solaris-2.6.iso /qemu/iso -
docker-compose down
You should now have two new volumes:
docker volume ls
DRIVER VOLUME NAME
...
local docker-solaris_disk
local docker-solaris_iso
...
- Start the container in pre-flight mode:
docker-compose up --no-start
Creating network "docker-solaris_default" with the default driver
Creating docker-solaris_sol_1 ... done
Now just switch to using the docker command instead of docker-compose
- Start the container:
docker start docker-solaris_sol_1 - Attach to the container:
docker attach docker-solaris_sol_1
When you attach to it the PROM prompt will be waiting, hit enter in case you don't see anything and it should accept a blank line and give you a 0 > prompt.
- To detach from the docker container:
control-p-q - When attached,
control-a-cwill switch between the QEMU monitor and the serial line, by default it's switched to the serial line when it first starts
docker attach docker-solaris_sol_1
0 > QEMU 5.2.0 monitor - type 'help' for more information <-- preessed control-a-c to switch to qemu monitor
(qemu) info network
hub 0
\ hub0port2: lance.0: index=0,type=nic,model=lance,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:56
\ port2: user0: index=0,type=user,net=10.0.0.0,restrict=off
\ port1: socket0: index=0,type=socket,
(qemu) info usernet
Hub 0 (user0):
Protocol[State] FD Source Address Port Dest. Address Port RecvQ SendQ
(qemu) <---- pressed control-a-c to switch back to serial line
ok
0 > read escape sequence <---- pressed control-p-q and detached from the container
❯<----- bash prompt
By default this thing will try to boo from the hard disk image, and if it can't it will drop back to the PROM.
- At the PROM boot prompt, type
boot cdrom:d -vsand hit enter:
docker attach docker-solaris-master_sol_1
Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 32
Probing SBus slot 0 offset 0
Probing SBus slot 1 offset 0
Probing SBus slot 2 offset 0
Probing SBus slot 3 offset 0
Probing SBus slot 4 offset 0
Probing SBus slot 5 offset 0
Invalid FCode start byte
CPUs: 1 x FMI,MB86904
UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on May 4 2022 19:50
Type 'help' for detailed information
Trying disk:a...
Trying disk...
Not a bootable ELF image
Not a bootable a.out image
No valid state has been set by load or init-program
0 > boot cdrom:d Not a bootable ELF image
Loading a.out image...
Loaded 7680 bytes
entry point is 0x4000
bootpath: /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@2,0:d
switching to new context:
SunOS Release 5.6 Version Generic_105181-05 [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
Copyright (c) 1983-1997, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WARNING: /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@0,0 (sd0):
corrupt label - wrong magic number
Configuring devices...
fdintr: nobody sleeping (c0 0 0)
fdintr: nobody sleeping (c0 0 0)
The system is coming up. Please wait.
...
Select a Language
0) English
1) German
2) Spanish
3) French
4) Italian
5) Swedish
? 0
Select a Locale
The locale you select on this screen becomes the default displayed
on your desktop after you reboot the system. Selecting a locale
determines how online information is displayed for a specific
locale or region (for example, time, date, spelling, and monetary value.)
NOTE: The ASCII only option gives you the default 128-character set that
was available in previous releases. If you do not need to send/receive
international correspondence where you need locale-specific alphabetic
characters (like accented or umlaut characters) the ASCII only set
is sufficient. Otherwise, you can select an ISO locale which contains
a 256-character set. Selecting an ISO locale can cause a minor
performance degradation (in many cases, less than 5%).
0) USA - English (ASCII only) 12) Lithuania
1) Czech Republic 13) Latvia
2) Denmark 14) Netherlands
3) Greece 15) Netherlands/Belgium
4) Australia - English (ISO-8859-1) 16) Norway
5) Canada - English (ISO-8859-1) 17) Poland
6) Ireland - English ( 8 bit ) 18) Portugal
7) New Zealand - English ( 8 bit ) 19) Portugal/Brazil
8) UK - English (ISO-8859-1) 20) Russia
9) USA - English (ISO-8859-1) 21) Finland
10) Estonia 22) Turkey
11) Hungary 23) Go Back to Previous Screen
Type a number and press Return or Enter [0]:
...
What type of terminal are you using?
1) ANSI Standard CRT
2) DEC VT52
3) DEC VT100
4) Heathkit 19
5) Lear Siegler ADM31
6) PC Console
7) Sun Command Tool
8) Sun Workstation
9) Televideo 910
10) Televideo 925
11) Wyse Model 50
12) X Terminal Emulator (xterms)
13) Other
Type the number of your choice and press Return: 1
...
- If you're having trouble with the terminal, press
control-l(line feed) at any time to redraw the screen
- The Solaris Installation Program ---------------------------------------------
The Solaris installation program is divided into a series of short sections
where you'll be prompted to provide information for the installation. At
the end of each section, you'll be able to change the selections you've
made before continuing.
About navigation...
- The mouse cannot be used
- If your keyboard does not have function keys, or they do not
respond, press ESC; the legend at the bottom of the screen
will change to show the ESC keys to use for navigation.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Esc-2_Continue Esc-6_Help
- Hit
escape_key-2 - Follow the rest of the installer
- IP address
10.0.0.2 - domain:
localdomain - Nameserver (specify one)
dunnofor hostname (tab to the next field) specify4.2.2.1for DNS - select yes system is part of a subnet
- Specify
255.255.240.0 - It will fail, specify
nowhen prompted to enter new name service info - Go through the installer until you get to the partitioner
- And it will drop you out to command line when it can't find a disk:
Exiting (caught signal 11)
Type suninstall to restart.
# format
...
format> type
AVAILABLE DRIVE TYPES:
0. Auto configure
1. Quantum ProDrive 80S
2. Quantum ProDrive 105S
3. CDC Wren IV 94171-344
4. SUN0104
5. SUN0207
6. SUN0327
7. SUN0340
8. SUN0424
9. SUN0535
10. SUN0669
11. SUN1.0G
12. SUN1.05
13. SUN1.3G
14. SUN2.1G
15. SUN2.9G
16. other
Specify disk type (enter its number)[15]:
- Save and quit
- Run
suninstall - And the install begins
Preparing system for Solaris install
Configuring disk (c0t0d0)
- Creating Solaris disk label (VTOC)
Creating and checking UFS file systems
- Creating / (c0t0d0s0)
- Creating /usr/openwin (c0t0d0s1)
- Creating /var (c0t0d0s3)
...
Solaris Initial Install
MBytes Installed: 0.18
18 MBytes Remaining: 419.36
Installing: TWS uoshX Window System & Graphics Runtime Library Links
in /usr/lib
|
| | | | | |
0 20 40 60 80 100
...
Solaris 2.6 software installation succeeded
Customizing system files
- Mount points table (/etc/vfstab)
- Network host addresses (/etc/hosts)
Customizing system devices
- Physical devices (/devices)
fdintr: nobody sleeping (c0 0 0)
fdintr: nobody sleeping (c0 0 0)
- Logical devices (/dev)
Installing boot information
- Installing boot blocks (c0t0d0s0)
Installation log location
- /a/var/sadm/system/logs/install_log (before reboot)
- /var/sadm/system/logs/install_log (after reboot)
Installation complete
Executing SolStart postinstall phase...
Executing finish script "patch_finish"...
Checking installed packages and patches...
QEMU 5.2.0 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) info registers
pc: f00645b0 npc: f00645b4
%g0-7: 00000000 ef6c5b2c 00000000 0000040d 000010e0 00000000 00000000 00000000
%o0-7: 00050c18 00000000 00000003 0009a7f0 0009269c 00000003 efffe508 00025bec
%l0-7: 04000081 ef6865a8 ef6865ac 00000000 00000000 0000040d 000010e0 ef6c5b2c
%i0-7: 00094460 0005bfdc 00000000 0a000000 00000000 0004e6cc efffe260 ef686424
%f00: ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff
%f08: ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff
%f16: ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff
%f24: ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000
psr: 04400081 (icc: -Z-- SPE: S--) wim: 00000001
fsr: 00000000 y: 00000000
(qemu) info registers
pc: 0002571c npc: 00025720
%g0-7: 00000000 0004d400 00000000 18655444 7a476a38 00000000 00000000 00000000
%o0-7: 0009a7f0 00000001 00000001 000a35c8 00000000 00008024 efffe008 00025714
%l0-7: 00000050 00000000 00000000 00000000 000a4cf8 00000000 00000000 00000000
%i0-7: 0009b290 0004e6f4 0004d6a6 0004d660 000a35c8 00000000 efffe098 00024d50
%f00: ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff
%f08: ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff
%f16: ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff
%f24: ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000
psr: 04400026 (icc: -Z-- SPE: --E) wim: 00000080
fsr: 00000000 y: 00000000
(qemu)
Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (dry run method)...
Installing patch packages...
Patch number 105570-01 has been successfully installed.
See /a/var/sadm/patch/105570-01/log for details
Patch packages installed:
SUNWrtvc
SUNWrtvcl
Checking installed packages and patches...
Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (dry run method)...
Installing patch packages...
Patch number 105633-05 has been successfully installed.
See /a/var/sadm/patch/105633-05/log for details
Patch packages installed:
SUNWxwcft
SUNWxwfnt
SUNWxwplt
SUNWxwslb
Checking installed packages and patches...
Executing prepatch script...
Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (dry run method)...
Installing patch packages...
Patch number 105654-03 has been successfully installed.
See /a/var/sadm/patch/105654-03/log for details
Patch packages installed:
SUNWcsr
Checking installed packages and patches...
Executing prepatch script...
Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (dry run method)...
Installing patch packages...
...
This part just takes forever, why the disc shipped with patches RTM that weren't already applied is beyond me, but it needs to do it, and then it will auto-reboot:
Executing JumpStart postinstall phase...
The begin script log 'begin.log'
is located in /var/sadm/system/logs after reboot.
The finish script log 'finish.log'
is located in /var/sadm/system/logs after reboot.
Mar 22 17:11:04 rpcbind: rpcbind terminating on signal.
syncing file systems... done
rebooting...
rebooting ()
Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 32
Probing SBus slot 0 offset 0
Probing SBus slot 1 offset 0
Probing SBus slot 2 offset 0
Probing SBus slot 3 offset 0
Probing SBus slot 4 offset 0
Probing SBus slot 5 offset 0
Invalid FCode start byte
CPUs: 1 x FMI,MB86904
UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on May 4 2022 19:50
Type 'help' for detailed information
Trying disk:a...
Not a bootable ELF image
Loading a.out image...
Loaded 7680 bytes
entry point is 0x4000
bootpath: /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@0,0:a
switching to new context:
SunOS Release 5.6 Version Generic_105181-05 [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
Copyright (c) 1983-1997, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Hostname: solaris
Configuring the /devices directory
fdintr: nobody sleeping (c0 0 0)
fdintr: nobody sleeping (c0 0 0)
Configuring the /dev directory
Configuring the /dev directory (compatibility devices)
The system is coming up. Please wait.
checking ufs filesystems
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s1: is clean.
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s5: is clean.
/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s7: is clean.
Configuring network interface addresses: le0
RPC: Timed out
NIS domainname is localdomain
...
and then after a bit you will be prompted to change the password:
On this screen you can create a root password.
A root password can contain any number of characters, but only the first eight
characters in the password are significant. (For example, if you create
`a1b2c3d4e5f6' as your root password, you can use `a1b2c3d4' to gain root
access.)
You will be prompted to type the root password twice; for security, the passwordwill not be displayed on the screen as you type it.
> If you do not want a root password, press RETURN twice.
Root password:
Press Return to continue.
I set mine to cheese
System identification is completed.
Setting netmask of le0 to 255.255.240.0
Setting default interface for multicast: add net 224.0.0.0: gateway solaris
syslog service starting.
passwd.org_dir: Error in accessing NIS+ cold start file... is NIS+ installed?.
group.org_dir: Error in accessing NIS+ cold start file... is NIS+ installed?.
hosts.org_dir: Error in accessing NIS+ cold start file... is NIS+ installed?.
Print services started.
volume management starting.
The system is ready.
solaris console login: root
Password:cheese
Mar 22 20:14:54 solaris login: ROOT LOGIN /dev/console
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.6 Generic August 1997
# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 8232
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
le0: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.0.0.2 netmask fffff000 broadcast 10.0.15.255
ether 52:54:0:12:34:56
# ping 10.0.0.1
10.0.0.1 is alive
# route add default 10.0.0.1
add net default: gateway 10.0.0.1
# 4.2.2.1
4.2.2.1 is alive
In addition to forwarding ports with docker/compose, however you do, (most people probably use the ports section though for me it's a little different) you also need to configure a port forward for the QEMU user net:
(qemu) help hostfwd_add
hostfwd_add [netdev_id] [tcp|udp]:[hostaddr]:hostport-[guestaddr]:guestport -- redirect TCP or UDP connections from host to guest (requires -net user)
(qemu) info usernet
Hub 0 (user0):
Protocol[State] FD Source Address Port Dest. Address Port RecvQ SendQ
(qemu) hostfwd_add user0 tcp:100.64.96.34:23-10.0.0.2:23
(qemu) info usernet
Hub 0 (user0):
Protocol[State] FD Source Address Port Dest. Address Port RecvQ SendQ
TCP[HOST_FORWARD] 11 100.64.96.34 23 10.0.0.2 23 0 0
(qemu)
- then you would just telnet to
100.64.96.34if that were the IP address of the container itself.
If you haven't figured this out the volumes can be copied and you can create as many containers as you want. The first container that you create bootstraps the user network, and additional containers you just need to change the env for the compose to match something like this:
SOCKET_NET: connect=100.64.96.34:65534
MAC: "de:ad:de:01:02:04"
- Running on a Mac M1 at the moment doesn't work