Re: How to P2V Solaris (SPARC) to VMware x86 Virtual Machine?

Maybe look for Cross VIrtualization products.

Transitive (I thin was bought from IBM)

http://www.icesystems.com.au/files/pdf/transitive/Transitive_Virtualization_Whitepaper.pdf

http://download.intel.com/technology/virtualization/Transitive_Solution_Brief.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTransit

http://blog.boreas.ro/2008/03/runing-solaris-sparc-software-on-x86-64.html

Must IBM be asked.

Windrive

http://www.windriver.com/products/product-overviews/po_simics_0612.pdf

I think stromasys is a solution

http://www.stromasys.cn/news/news-detail/datum/2010/06/24/stromasys-announces-sybil-sparcstation-and-zelus-virtual-hp-3000/

SYBIL/SS20 allows organizations running business-critical applications to run a virtual SPARCstation 5,10, or 20 through a SPARCstation 20 hardware abstraction layer (HAL) on an industry x86 computer system, server or laptop. When installed, the HAL appears to any software running on it as SPARCstation20 hardware

For OpenVMS

http://www.stromasys.com/products/charon-vax/

Michael