#95: Run coreboot in VirtualBox ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: defect | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: misc | Version: Keywords: | Dependencies: Patchstatus: there is no patch | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ It would be nice if we could test coreboot images in VirtualBox, see http://virtualbox.org/.
VirtualBox does not (yet) provide a simple mechanism to use a different BIOS in their emulated machines (something like "-L" in qemu). Instead the BIOS image (a custom bochs BIOS + LGPL'g VGABIOS) is converted to C code (an array of bytes, or the like) and merged into the VirtualBox executable.
The relevant files are {{{ src/VBox/Devices/PC/DevPcBios.cpp bldprogs/bin2c.c }}} if someone want to hack VirtualBox to easily support using coreboot images instead of their usual BIOS.
#95: Run coreboot in VirtualBox ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: misc | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Dependencies: | Patchstatus: there is no patch ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by stepan):
* type: defect => enhancement
#95: Run coreboot in VirtualBox ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: misc | Version: Resolution: wontfix | Keywords: Dependencies: | Patchstatus: there is no patch ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by stepan):
* status: new => closed * resolution: => wontfix
Comment:
No progress in 11 months. closing for now
#95: Run coreboot in VirtualBox ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement | Status: reopened Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: misc | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Dependencies: | Patchstatus: there is no patch ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by uwe):
* status: closed => reopened * resolution: wontfix =>
Comment:
Reopen this issue, no progress so far doesn't mean there won't be any in the future. This is nice target for aspiring developers IMHO.
#95: Run coreboot in VirtualBox ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement | Status: reopened Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: misc | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Dependencies: | Patchstatus: there is no patch ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
Comment(by stepan):
On the other hand, issue that nobody is working on and that seem to be of too little importance that anyone feels obligated to get the ticket assigned create nothing but white noise in the tracker and make it harder for people who plan to work on _real_ issues by using the tracker.
#95: Run coreboot in VirtualBox ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: misc | Resolution: invalid Keywords: | Dependencies: Patch Status: there is no patch | ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Changes (by stepan):
* status: reopened => closed * resolution: => invalid
Comment:
Another year of no effort on this one. It simply doesn't seem to be an "issue", so it shouldn't be in the "issue tracker". Maybe this idea would be better suited for the "Ideas" page in the wiki? http://www.coreboot.org/Ideas
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:49:55PM -0000, coreboot wrote:
#95: Run coreboot in VirtualBox ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: misc | Resolution: invalid Keywords: | Dependencies: Patch Status: there is no patch | ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Changes (by stepan):
- status: reopened => closed
- resolution: => invalid
Comment:
Another year of no effort on this one. It simply doesn't seem to be an "issue", so it shouldn't be in the "issue tracker". Maybe this idea would be better suited for the "Ideas" page in the wiki? http://www.coreboot.org/Ideas
Yup, done.
Uwe.
#95: Run coreboot in VirtualBox ----------------------------------+------------------------- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: misc | Resolution: invalid Keywords: | Dependencies: Patch Status: there is no patch | ----------------------------------+-------------------------
Comment (by Intika):
this idea look nice :) i ll have a look in it when i have time... seems to be easy to implement https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1929
-- Ticket URL: https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/95#comment:6 coreboot http://www.coreboot.org/
#95: Run coreboot in VirtualBox ----------------------------------+------------------------- Reporter: uwe | Owner: somebody Type: enhancement | Status: closed Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: misc | Resolution: invalid Keywords: | Dependencies: Patch Status: there is no patch | ----------------------------------+-------------------------
Comment (by Intika):
you should reopen the issue
-- Ticket URL: https://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/95#comment:7 coreboot http://www.coreboot.org/
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Uwe Hermann