Running a Solaris binary on SPARC without SPARC hardware

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                          I have a historical binary ObjectGeode which is only able to work on SUN SPARC machine with Solaris OS (doesn't matter which Solaris version). My questions are:  

 - How can I run the program without Sun-SPARC hardware?
 - If emulation is the only option, which tool is appropriate for this issue?

I would prefer Linux or Windows as host system.  

**Edit:**  
I installed qemu- 2.5.50  32bit.However I can't launch the image- ***Solaris_2.6_Software_05_98.img***  
I used Cygwin in order to invoke command.Here it is  

*./qemu-system-sparc.exe -L . -hda Solaris_2.6_Software_05_98.img -m 256*  

But I got no response.  
It looks something is missing.Is there a guidance for windows launching qemu?

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Nov 17, 2016, 11:27 AM
Last activity: Nov 18, 2016, 07:23 AM

Running a Solaris binary on SPARC without SPARC hardware

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