Opened 5 years ago
Closed 3 years ago
#95 closed enhancement (invalid)
Run coreboot in VirtualBox
| Reported by: | uwe | Owned by: | somebody |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
| Component: | misc | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Dependencies: | ||
| Patch Status: | there is no patch |
Description
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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Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by stepan
- Type changed from defect to enhancement
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by stepan
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to closed
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by uwe
- Resolution wontfix deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
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.
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago 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.
comment:5 Changed 3 years ago by stepan
- Resolution set to invalid
- Status changed from reopened to closed
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
No progress in 11 months. closing for now