X-Received: by 10.157.27.189 with SMTP id z58mr1319511otd.91.1491860133391; Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:35:33 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!newspeer1.nac.net!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!c45no748864qtb.1!news-out.google.com!y33ni450qty.1!nntp.google.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx35.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: rlhamil@smart.net Organization: Timetravellers Anonymous From: rlhamil@smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton) Subject: Oracle Linux for SPARC on a T5240? Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.solaris Followup-To: com.os.linux.misc Lines: 49 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse(at)newshosting.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:35:33 UTC Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:35:33 GMT X-Received-Bytes: 2835 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1546324908 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Original-Bytes: 2753 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:19720 comp.sys.sun.hardware:731 comp.sys.sun.misc:111 comp.unix.solaris:8699 So I read about Oracle Linux 6 update 7 for SPARC https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/entry/monday_spotlight_announcing_oracle_linux The links on there don't seem to get me to the ISO, but hopefully the following is it: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/linux/downloads/oracle-linux-sparc-3665558.html Now I don't happen to have a T5 or T7 (home user, not wealthy!), but I do have a T5240. The older and even more experimental https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-sparc/ runs ok in an LDOM on it (control LDOM Solaris 11.3, LDOM manager whatever comes with that); but it does not have a feature I crave, the ability to assign it multiple MAC addresses (on a single VNIC), since I want to run an emulator (hercules) on it in a bridging configuration. (Supposedly I could give it a 2nd VNIC, although how I could use that VNIC if it was down so that the OS wouldn't use it, I'm not sure.) Anyone know whether: * the 2nd link above is indeed the download for the 6u7 ISO? (the file name in the link on that page sure looks right!) * that version can be given multiple MAC addresses on a VNIC (in an LDOM)? (I know that can be done with a Solaris 11.3 guest LDOM, I have one that has an extra MAC for a zone) * it can run (in a guest LDOM) on a T52x0, since that's what I have? While it's not yet doing much, I'd rather not blow away my existing LDOM (running the 3rd link above, plus any updates in its repo) just as an experiment, and I don't have enough disk space (or RAM) to set up another LDOM, so I'm hoping someone has an idea whether this would work. (The alternative would be to back up the image of the existing LDOM to another system with ample space, which would be slooow even over GigE, and of course double slow if the experiment failed and I had to restore that backup.) Apologies for some of the odd newsgroups on the initial post, but I suspect that most of the people that might know the answer are in at least one of the seemingly less on-topic ones. -- Lasik/PRK theme music: "In the Hall of the Mountain King", from "Peer Gynt" (read act 2, scene 6 of the play if that doesn't make sense)