QEMU 2.3.0-rc2 Released

[cb88]

Well problem of QEMU was everytime typical Linux problem, lack of proper GUI.. Because without straighforward Virtualbox, Vmware, Hyper-V GUI is only geek or skilled technician tool with steep learning curve. I many times simply discover that lots of paper options dont work in some real life setting combination - for example on paper SPARC emulation was supported, but some instructions werent implemented, so SPARC support so vaporware . GUI is also good to simply disable user set up such combination without study of hundred page of documentation.

It depends on what you want to do with the sparc support... v8 emulation is pretty good. qemu-system-sparc It can boot just about anything although there are occasional regressions. Unfortunately it isn't very fast emulation... though I think it may have improved somewhat recently.

qemu-system-sparc64 Sparc v9 emulation is passable at this point (good enough to boot a linux distro and maybe bsd but is more actively developed these days.

[magika]

GNOME Boxes maybe is great at easily launching something but it doesn't even let you to edit qemu command line, e.g. complete lack customization. So the deal is to launch with Boxes and then steal the launching parameters via ps or something; in the end it is same terminal with no GUI.