On 17/10/2018 16:28, Jd Lyons via OpenBIOS wrote:
That’s pretty cool Mark, is the virtue-blk driver only good for CDROM image files, or can we use it on HD images as well.
I gave it a go with a Mac OS 9 image file, and was able to boot over the Trampoline into the Mac OS Nano Kernel, but it couldn’t find the System Folder, so booting halted with the ? Icon.
Not surprising, I think we would need a Openbios based ’NDRV’ for the virtio-blk device.
Yeah that's just about it - since the native OS doesn't have a virtio-blk-pci driver then someone would need to write an NDRV similar to the way in which Ben wrote the QEMU VGA driver. Don't suppose you know anyone with any MacOS 9 development experience who might be interested?
Booting the Trampoline was much faster with this driver, at least 2-3x.
Glad that you found it useful :)
ATB,
Mark.