This exit handler is called by the NOVA kernel now when the VM uses PAE
with nested paging and the PDPTE registers need to get updated. With this
commit, an error message is printed if this situation occurs.
Fixes#1640
The information about connected devices is obtained from a ROM file named
'usb_devices', which is supposed to contain a device list as in the device
report generated by the USB driver (see issue #1506).
A policy for 'report_rom' would look like:
<policy label="vbox -> usb_devices" report="usb_drv -> devices"/>
If the 'usb_devices' ROM file is not available, a warning message gets
printed and VirtualBox continues without USB pass-through support.
The devices to be passed-through need to have a matching device filter in
the '.vbox' file. Example:
<USB>
<DeviceFilters>
<DeviceFilter name="USB Scanner" active="true" vendorId="04a9"
productId="2220" remote="0"/>
</DeviceFilters>
</USB>
The feature was tested with HID devices (mouse, keyboard) and a flatbed
scanner. Mass storage devices didn't work correctly (they also didn't work
with VirtualBox on Linux without the closed-source extension pack).
It should be made sure that the USB driver does not try to control the
devices to be passed-through itself, for example, when passing-through
a HID device, the '<hid/>' config option should not be set.
Fixes#1507
This commit enables the VirtualBox graphics adapter, provides guest mouse
pointer integration with Nitpicker using the 'vbox_pointer' application
and enhances the VirtualBox run scripts with the configuration of
Nitpicker, input merger and network driver.
Fixes#1474
Some functions in the time manager, for example 'TMTimerSet()' and
'TMTimerStop()' let VirtualBox abort with a failed assertion if the timer
does not change to a 'stable' state after 1000 calls of a mixture of
'yield' and 'sleep'. On Genode, this happens sometimes when the 'EMT'
thread is executing 'TMTimerSet()' and gets interrupted by the 'TAP'
thread, which calls 'TMTimerStop()' and waits for the 'EMT' thread to
finish setting the timer. Since the 'EMT' thread has the lowest priority,
1000 retries can be too few. Without the assertion, these functions would
return an error code, which is often ignored by the caller, so it seems
safer to keep retrying until the function can return successfully.
Fixes#1437
* use seoul branch containing vbios emulator
* report the memory model in the VBE mode info as otherwise the
Genode framebuffer driver will ignore this mode
Fixes#1261
The port was succesfully tested a echo test and lighttpd. DHCP over
OpenVPN is not tested and probably will not work out of the box.
Therefore, the ip address etc. need to be specified manually.
For now, only ethernet bridging (using a TAP device) is supported.
Fixes#1235.
* repos/ports/include/vmm
- add support to specify cpu location during vCPU construction
* seoul
- update to latest seoul branch supporting smp
- adjust to vmm interface changes
- vCPUs will be put in a round robin fashion on the available host CPUs,
beginning with the next CPU after the default (boot) CPU
- number of vCPUs can be specified in run script
* virtualbox
- adjust to vmm interface changes
- uses still one vCPU, placed on default (boot) CPU
Fixes#1212
and add xml configuration option to switch it on if required. Avoids trouble
on Windows 7 guest where IRQ injected by VMMDev PCI device is not delivered.
If ioapic is required and Windows guest addition "hangs", look in file
DevPCI.cpp, function pciSetIrqInternal, variable fIsApicEnabled. If
config[0xde] == 0xbe
config[0xad] == 0xef
it works. "Deadbeaf" seems to/should be set in ACPI file vbox.dsl. Happens for
unknown reason not on Genode/Nova.
Fixes#1188
In file
src/VBox/Additions/WINNT/SharedFolders/driver/file.c
the function
static int vbsfTransferCommon(VBSFTRANSFERCTX *pCtx)
in the
VbglR0CanUsePhysPageList()
branch does not correctly evaluate the read or written bytes from
the VMM. It ever assumes that whole pages are read/written.
Workaround the bug in the Windows guest additions of Vbox until fixed
upstream by filling up the read/write buffer completely within the VMM code
of Vbox.
Fixes#1176
This patch changes the top-level directory layout as a preparatory
step for improving the tools for managing 3rd-party source codes.
The rationale is described in the issue referenced below.
Issue #1082
