Hi Johannes, I'm interested in this setup too. Did you manage to get it to work?
Cheers Sid On 2/6/19 2:00 PM, Johannes Schlatow wrote: > Hi, > > I'd would like to boot my native Linux installation from within Sculpt using > Virtualbox. First, let me briefly describe what I have done so far: > > I created a raw disk image that contains the relevant partitions (ESP, root > and home), added the Block devices to the vfs of Virtualbox, and routed the > Block sessions to the corresponding part_blk server. I also made the EFI > firmware file available to Virtualbox. I created a vbox file and tested it on > another Linux system. However, when using this vbox file on sculpt, I noticed > that vbox does not respect the '<Firmware type="EFI"/>', i.e. neither my boot > manager nor the UEFI shell appears. I had a look in the Genode repository and > noticed that there is a vbox patch that removes (ifdef 0) the Nvram > initialisation which is supposed to happen if the firmware type is EFI. > > Thus it appears that EFI support has been 'patched-out' from the virtualbox > port. Is this intentional? Are there any major blockers that prevent us from > using Virtualbox with some EFI firmware? > > Cheers > Johannes > > _______________________________________________ > Genode users mailing list > users@lists.genode.org > https://lists.genode.org/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Genode users mailing list users@lists.genode.org https://lists.genode.org/listinfo/users
