Hi, Alex,
After a long break, I would like to update you on my recent work. I've revisited the run script that you created for a USB boot-up. It worked - previously it was a careless mistake on my part with the dd command - use a wrong device name.
The USB boot-up could now boot-up partially but mainly on Acer hardware, but not on Dell or HP hardware - the screen would hang on the Genode bootup.
For the Acer bootup, it was only partial - after the Windows 7 screen came up, it seemed "hang" for very long. The mouse pointer can still movec though. I understand without serial port hardware, it is near to impossible to troubleshoot. As such, I am thinking of purchasing a refurbished Lenovo X201 - the same one that Norman is using. I also tried using VMware Workstation and Virtualbox to boot up the USB stick. I even swapped the Guest VMs between Ubuntu and Windows 7. All would hang after Genode boots up.
Btw, is it necessary to stick to 32-bit versions of the Guest OSs ? I notice the vbox_auto_win8 using the "assert_spec 64bit", does this meant that this script is for 64-bit Guest OS. Anyway, I would to consult you what are the main hardware features that are required to be compatible to the Nova/Genode software ?
I would like to move on to a hard-disk based configuration in the long run. I hope to be able to run two operating systems, Windows and a Linux on top of Genode/Nova, both supporting Java applications. Can you recommend any scripts or configuration steps that I can use to do such a setup. I am trying using the vbox_auto_win7 and vbox_auto_win8 scripts.
Thanks.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Vincent Digital <vdigital3800@...9...> wrote:
Okay, noted. Thanks. I'll try again maybe with a new USB stick.
Regards.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Alexander Boettcher < alexander.boettcher@...1...> wrote:
Some additional note:
make sure that you remove/uncomment all RUN_OPT in your etc/build.conf and really replace it by this line:
# Set RUN_OPT in your build.conf to: RUN_OPT = --include image/disk
Otherwise the resulting image is not in the expected state.
Alex.
On 10.09.2015 05:38, Vincent Digital wrote:
Hi, Alex,
I've used your USB_RUN script to create an image file. I followed your instructions to prepare the USB stick. However, the USB stick cannot boot up. Unfortunately, I do not have access to a laptop with serial port so I am unable to get any logs. Can I check with you on your instructions (the mini-howto below)
instead.
Thanks.
# Short mini howto for nova_x86_64: # - assumption - /dev/sdc is your USB stick # - assumption - you are in the genode source root directory # - assumption - you have prepared all external ports # - assumption - you have build the rump tools -> tool/tool_chain_rump # # create a nova_x86_64 build directory # - tool/create_builddir nova_x86_64 # # Put/symlink your Windows 7 vdi to build/nova_x86_64/win7.vdi # # Set RUN_OPT in your build.conf to: RUN_OPT = --include image/disk # # Build everything: # - make -C build/nova_x86_64 run/vbox_usb # # Make sure that the USB is not used - all partitions are un-mounted.
How should I prepare this USB stick, should it be formatted under a
particular filesystem (ext2, or FAT32)
I have tried various ways - delete everything including partitions,
etc.
and then create a new partition
Can I clarify the steps below are in sequential order
- dd operation
- fdisk operation - delete all partitions, then create a new
partition
and then write to disk.
- Resizefs operation
- Mount partiton (I tried this but could not get a successful mount
until I create a filesystem using mke2fs. Is this step necessary ?)
# Copy disk image to your USB stick: # - sudo dd if=build/nova_x86_64/var/run/vbox_usb.img of=/dev/sdc # # Make sure that the USB partition of the stick is un-mounted. # # Resize USB stick partition to maximum: # - sudo fdisk /dev/sdc # -- delete partition ('d') # -- create partition - ('p') # -- write table to disk and exit ('w') # # - sudo resize2fs -p /dev/sdc1 # # Mount Genode partition on USB stick and copy your Windows image to
the USB
# stick: # # - sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /media/genode # - cp build/nova_x86_64/win7.vdi /media/genode/. # - mkdir /media/genode/ram # - cp build/nova_x86_64/bin/overlay_win7.vdi /media/genode/ram/. # - umount /media/genode # # Boot your USB stick. For debugging get the serial output of the test machine. #
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:03 AM, Alexander Boettcher < alexander.boettcher@...1...> wrote:
On 28.08.2015 13:44, Alexander Boettcher wrote:
The part that I am not sure are the "win7.vdi" and "overlay_win7.vdi" files. How are they linked to the vbox_auto_win7.iso file ? I have copied them onto the thumbdrive but is this correct ?
You may try the following branch https://github.com/alex-ab/genode/commits/vbox_usb_run. There exists
now
a run script called repos/ports/run/vbox_usb.run which helps you in setting up a Virtualbox on Genode/NOVA running from USB stick and fetching the Virtualbox image from the vary same USB stick. Please follow the instruction as described in the run script.
Still, there a lot of manual steps to go - but it may help a bit.
Please keep in mind, depending on the read and write performance of
your
USB controller and stick the overall experience may be not as good as when used with a real hard disk.
Alex.
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