The code belongs to our company, and it's quite complicated, so I can't share
the code here. I can answer questions.
This is roughly the components you will need:
(1) linux user mode: test.c --- (open and read/write /dev/vbox_pipe)
(2) linux kernel driver: vbox_pipe.ko
Windows host plugins for the virtual PCI device:
(3)vbox_pipe_pci.dll(4) vbox_pipe_driver.dll
You need two additions, one is the virtual PCI device itself, and the other is
the driver to handle the i/o of the virtual device, to pipe in/out to other
processes, for example.
Inside vbox_pipe_pci.dll, you create a PCI device, register some register and
map some memory I/O spaces.
Good lucks,
- Huihong
From: 星策DRACULAX <[email protected]>
To: 'Huihong Luo' <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 3:01 AM
Subject: 答复: [vbox-dev] How add device or driver (PDM) to VirtualBox
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try to buile my own virtual pci device and as Luo said, I must read all the
vmmdev related code.Could you send me some document or demo on virtual pci
device?
发件人: Huihong Luo [mailto:[email protected]]
发送时间: 2015年6月27日 14:25
收件人: Klaus Espenlaub; [email protected]
主题: Re: [vbox-dev] How add device or driver (PDM) to VirtualBox I think that
most likely the OP wants to develop a virtual PCI device, so the guest and the
host can communicate with each other, like some kind of pipe system. The guest
and the host can read/write to each other through shared memory. If this is
indeed the case, one can study vbox's builtin guest/host implementation,
basically vbox itself uses a virtual PCI device (Devices/VMMDev/VMMDev.cpp),
and then inside Linux guest, there is corresponding VBoxGuest.ko kernel module,
which is a PCI driver to interact with the virtual device emulated by vbox.
This is how vbox's guest additions work. I have implemented a simple virtual
PCI device, like QEMU's pipe. What I can tell you, this is not an easy job, and
you have to understand all the concepts, plus a detailed study of vbox source
code. From: Klaus Espenlaub <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 6:22 AM
Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] How add device or driver (PDM) to VirtualBox
Marcin,
On 25.06.2015 10:57, Marcin K wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I ask about this before but don't get any answer...
yes, sorry about that, but right now everyone in the dev team is booked
out with super urgent things which have to be finished before 5.0 is
released. There's simply not enough time right now for bigger explanations.
>
> How add new device/driver to Virtualbox?
> Is there a someone who understand how PDM works?
>
> I compile VBoxSampleDevice.cpp and add it to VirtualBox but
> system(ubunutu 14) don't show any new device.
> To add dll to Virtualbox I use:
> VBoxManage setextradata global VBoxInternal/PDM/Devices/[[1]]/Path
> g:\VirtualBox\out\win.amd64\release\obj\testingDevice\VBoxSampleDevice.dll
VBoxSampleDevice.cpp is a totally empty piece of code. It compiles, it
loads, but doesn't expose ANY functionality to the VM.
> Also I try to add device using copy of Virtio device. I copy code
> of DevVirtioNet.cpp modify it (change some names), build dll and add to
> VirtualBox:
> VBoxManage setextradata global VBoxInternal/PDM/Devices/[[3]]/Path
> g:\VirtualBox\out\win.amd64\release\obj\testingDevice\testingDevice.dll
>
> But still nothing change in guest system.
>
> In DevVirtioNet.cpp I found a lot of code which set a lot of parameters
> connected with PCI. I try understand this code but this take, a lot of time.
>
> I also found that I have to set which driver will be use in system also
> in configuration of virtual machine.
> I try to set net ethernet cart type but in VBoxManage I found code which
> allow using only build in drivers so I can't set "My" modified Virtio
> driver.
>
> There is really no instruction or documentation how it's works?
There are lots of examples, in the form of the various device
implementations :)
Klaus
> I will be really gratefull for any help or instruction how add new
> device to VirtualBox.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Marcin
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