[coreboot] #95: Run coreboot in VirtualBox

coreboot svn at coreboot.org
Thu Apr 3 01:39:12 CEST 2008


#95: Run coreboot in VirtualBox
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   Reporter:  uwe                |          Owner:  somebody
       Type:  defect             |         Status:  new     
   Priority:  minor              |      Milestone:          
  Component:  misc               |        Version:          
   Keywords:                     |   Dependencies:          
Patchstatus:  there is no patch  |  
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 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.

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Ticket URL: <http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/coreboot/ticket/95>
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