running VirtualBox on Genode

[Alexander Boettcher]

On 10.07.2015 10:36, Daren Sin wrote:
> Hi Alex and Christian,
> 
> Really really thankful for the advice; apologies for the spoonfeeding as
> well. Making changes to virtualbox.run, I've managed to boot up TinyLinux
> on QEMU, but while QEMU says "booting kernel", the terminal reflects:
> 
> ...
> [init -> virtualbox] attempted to write to non-existing port 0xa79+1 . (02)
> [init -> virtualbox] attempted to write to non-existing port 0xa79+1 . (05)
> [init -> virtualbox] attempted to write to non-existing port 0xa79+1 . (02)
> [init -> virtualbox] attempted to write to non-existing port 0xa79+1 . (00)
> [init -> virtualbox] VMM: invalid gueststate
> [init -> virtualbox] VMM: invalid gueststate
> [init -> virtualbox] VMM: invalid gueststate
> [init -> virtualbox] VMM: invalid gueststate

I have another workaround to get a bit further, but finally Qemu for me
(version 2.1.2 and 2.3.0) dies with an internal failure - so it will of
no help to you. Please do as Christian suggested.

Alex.

> ...
> 
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Alexander Boettcher <
> alexander.boettcher at ...1...> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 10.07.2015 08:13, Daren Sin wrote:
>>> [init -> acpi] Could not open ROM session for module "config"
>>> [init -> acpi] void* abort(): abort called
>>
>> That it the actual reason, the acpi driver did not find a configuration
>> xml node. The issue got fixed already on current Genode master branch,
>> but for now you may apply the following fix [0]. Nevertheless, please
>> consider the suggestions of Christian Helmuth.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>> [0]
>>
>> https://github.com/alex-ab/genode/commit/738ad842f546afef16f3eb642ca3ff5c7c36e0cd
>>>
>>> What might be the problem?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Martin Stein <
>> martin.stein at ...1...>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Daren,
>>>>
>>>> On 08.07.2015 04:51, Daren Sin wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've found this
>>>>> page
>>>>
>> http://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/14.02#VirtualBox_on_top_of_the_NOVA_microhypervisor
>>>>> and managed to run the /make prepare/ command, but got stuck at the
>> next
>>>>> one.
>>>>
>>>> The 'make prepare' mechanism is outdated. It has been replaced by the
>>>> prepare_port command in tool/ports. Call the tool without arguments for
>>>> a short manpage.
>>>>
>>>>> I tried doing that, but got a /Error: libc is not
>>>>> prepared or outdated/ error.
>>>>
>>>> The error indicates that the third-party package "libc", which is needed
>>>> for your scenario, is missing or too old. You can update it by doing
>>>> './prepare_port libc' in tool/ports. There may be further third-party
>>>> packages (ports) that need such treatment.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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