- embedding combined manifest makes BOCHS.EXE usable
- list of DLL plugins now depends on the pci and debugger options
- 'make clean' now removes the generated manifest files
- renamed variable for external rules
- documentation update
complete and usable with the BOCHS.EXE built with the IDE.
TODO #1: fix BOCHS.EXE built with nmake (manifest issue)
TODO #2: make the currently fixed DLL plugin list variable
rules can be built now (keyboard, pit, gameport, serial, vga, svga_cirrus,
hdimage, netmod, soundmod, usb_common). The generated DLLs are usable with the
BOCHS.EXE built with the IDE, but the nmake won't work at all yet.
(bx_hdimage.dll) can be built now. All plugins that require special rules
could be fixed for nmake in a similar way.
TODO: find a way to compile plugins with standard rules (GNU make uses bx_%.dll
in that case, but MSVC nmake doesn't support this syntax).
required an external binary and it couldn't be ported to Windows. Now the new
builtin and portable slirp support based on Qemu's implementation is almost
stable and all the 'vnet' DHCP and TFTP features have been ported to the new
slirp module.
TODO: rename all the "slirp_new" stuff to "slirp"
- added container_of() macro replacement
- fixed unresolved symbol in netmod.cc
- added MSVC-style structure packing pragmas
- check for the presence of min / max macros
- enabled slirp_new for MSVC in configure script
TODO list:
- check for more updates from Qemu
- fix lots of compiler warnings
- reduce code duplication with 'vnet' module (DHCP, TFTP, ARP)
- add separate config file for slirp to make it more flexible (using the
'script' parameter)
- update MSVC workspace files
- add SMB support on Linux
- remove slirp backend module after next Bochs release
is almost a port of the Qemu 1.1.2 implementation. It has been tested successfully
on Linux and Windows (MinGW/MSYS). The networking module is currently called
"slirp_new", since the "slirp" backend module still exists.
TODO list:
- MSVC support (requires container_of() macro replacement)
- apply fixes and improvements from recent Qemu releases
- use our TFTP implementation to reduce code duplication
- check if we can share ARP and DHCP support with "vnet"
- add SMB support on Linux
- finally remove the slirp backend module support
when we use -lwsock32, but don't include it's header if __CYGWIN__ is defined.
Moved DEVICE_LINK_OPTS to a separate variable instead of appending options to
GUI_LINK_OPTS.
- reverted changes in SVN revision 10985 (-DWIN32 now works again with Cygwin)
- don't link Bochs.exe or RFB gui with wsock32.dll in the Cygwin case
- the win32 gui doesn't need to be linked wsock32.dll at all
'all' and 'clean'), minor code changes
TODO: floppy / hard disk image creation, add to VS2008 workspace
TODO: finally remove the legacy utilities bximage and bxcommit
- ALSA driver is now default on Linux (if present)
- SDL sound driver is now default if no platform-specific driver is available
and the SDL gui is enabled
- soundlnx.cc: sendwavepacket() now exits with error if device is not opened
- soundmod.cc: exit beep loop if sendwavepacket() returns error
- ALSA stuff moved from soundlnx.* to new soundalsa.* files
- SB16 / ES1370: including specific sound driver headers not necessary
- updated dependencies
- use the CXXFLAGS and link options provided by the libvncserver-config script
- added Windows support for MinGW/MSYS (compiles fine, but crashes sometimes)
higher resolutions and > 8 bpp graphics modes. The RFB gui with limited
capabilities is still available.
TODO:
- fix random segfaults in dimension_update()
- Windows (MinGW) support
- fixes for clients not supporting 'rfbEncodingNewFBSize'
- fix cursor shape after dimension update()
- scroll window has 16 visible items and the virtual size is not limited
- CPUID parameter list now using this feature
- FIXME #1: scroll window is not resized if browse button column is present
- FIXME #2: only one scroll window per dialog is supported
- PCI slot configuration, memory and i/o BAR registration, PCI i/o space
handlers now present in devices.cc
- configure: E1000 emulation and USB support need PCI
- vga: fixes for the non-PCI case
I am copiling using Cygwin+mingw and cnfigure script by default doesn't find and GUI library and therefore I supply --with-win32.
But seems it is not enough to get GUI debugger compiled - Makefile was missing win32_enh_dbg_osdep.cc
is based on a patch originally designed for DOSBox. Currently only the Voodoo1
adapter model can be emulation. The emulation is currently slow, but we intend
to clean up and optimize the code. Running the 3D engine in a separate thread
is also planned. To compile with Voodoo support the configure option
"--enable-voodoo" must be used. Then the device can be activated with
"plugin_ctrl: voodoo=1" in bochsrc or on the command line. The device will be
assigned automatically to a PCI slot unless you do that manually. A specific bochsrc
option to select the adapter model will be added when the code has support for it.
- enh_dbg: fixed defined-but-not-used warnings
- siminterface: renamed 'wx_debug_gui' to 'bx_debug_gui' and updated comments
- TODO: remove the wx debugger and use the enhanced gui debugger instead
but in case you want a few %% of extra emulation performance - it is still possible to disable it with configure option.
most guests I saw do not use it !
for CPU emulation performance reasons, the alignment check compilation
still can be enabled using configure option --enable-alignment-check.
There is no software in the world which enable #AC exception checking, this
x86 feature is completely legacy but its emulation support costs up to 3-5%
emulation speed.
The checking for #AC exception enable still will be done, if
CPL == 3, EFLAGS.AC = 1 and CR0.AM = 1
but the alignment check is not compiled in, the Bochs will PANIC with corresponding message.
You can press 'always continue' and ignore the PANIC, the simulation will continue as if alignment checking is not enabled.
- TODO #1: update MSVC workspace files
- TODO #2: these 'device classes' could be moved to subdirectories, too:
- pci (when we have more than one chipset)
- display (when we have one more device and vga / cirrus cleaned up)
I am merging the code in order to start making shortcuts between VMX emulation and SVM emulation.
Of course SVM emulation is incomplete, completely untested and not expected to work.
But someone could already take a look one the code and give some suggestions.
Also looking for anybody with existing SVM kernels - as simple as possible - for testing.
Status:
- exceptions intercept is not implemented yet
- IO intercept is not implemented yet
- MSR intercept is not implemented yet
- virtual interrupts are not implemented yet
- CPUID is not implemented yet
No advanced SVM featurez planned - I am implementing the very basic 'Pacifica' document from 2005 using QEMU code as reference.
- TODO: add save/restore support, use Bochs function for host to little endian
data conversion, timers of networking modules 'vnet' and 'slirp' should use
the device speed instead of fixed 10 MBit
- TODO #1: move shared stuff (e.g. creating TOC for image file) to the base class
to fix the temporary code duplication
- TODO #2: remove ASPI code for raw cdrom access on Win 98/ME after release
SMP emulation. New implementation uses dynamic CPU quantum value and takes
full advantage of the trace cache. Each emulated processor will execute
the whole trace before switching to the next processor.
* It is also safe to use large (up to 16 instructions) quantum values for
the SMP emulation now and improve performance even further.
The same merge also completely fixes SF bug :
[3312237] stepN command might be not working properly
Handlers chaining speedups are also supported with SMP emulation now.
feature is enabled by default when configure with --enable-all-optimizations
option, to disable handlers chaining speedups configure with
--disable-handlers-chaining
and the supported ethernet modules
- renamed eth.* files to netmod.*
- pseudo-device plugin implementation similar to 'soundmod'
- TODO: move sound, net and usb stuff to a separate subdirectory of iodev
The patch was posted in mailing list at Thu 6/16/2011.
Desription for CHANGES:
- Memory
- Added new configure option which enables RAM file backing for large guest
memory with a smaller amount host memory, without causing a panic when
host memory is exhausted (patch by Gary Cameron). To enable configure with
--enable-large-ramfile option.
environment. As a first step use it to skip some networking module tests.
- link BOCHS.EXE with MSVCRT if MSVC plugin support is enabled (building DLL
plugins with nmake still not possible - VS2008Ex workspace package coming soon)
- updated some messages for NE2000, PCI and USB
support compiles and links fine and the main object files for the plugin DLLs
are created. Since the gui and iodev makefiles are not ready yet, the link
stage must be done manually. Support for the search path defined in
LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH should be added when the DLL plugins compile and work.
The ACPI support is always automatically compiled in if PCI is compiled in.
The ACPI still could be disabled using .bochsrc 'plugin_ctrl' option.
Updated CHANGES and docs as well.
DAC2 is sent to the lowlevel sound module. DAC1 and sound input (ADC) are not
yet supported. Also unsupported: CODEC (mixer), UART (MIDI) and legacy support.
Sound module selection in configure script now no longer depends on SB16 and
uses autodetection only.
- fixed segfault when saving bochsrc
--enable-vbe is now deprecated and the symbols BX_SUPPORT_VBE and
BX_SUPPORT_PCIVGA have been removed. To enable VBE support, the bochsrc option
"vga: extension=" must be set to "vbe". If PCI is present, you can assign the
"pcivga" device to a PCI slot.
strtoull is widely used by Bochs but osdep.cc method is NOT working correctly for all cases
I occasinally saw it with MSDEV. But MSDEV supports this function natively
TODO: replace osdep.cc function as well
recent version of Slirp with Debian patches applied. On a Linux host the
guest OS can access the internet without running Bochs with root privileges.
TODO:
* rewrite the DHCP part of eth_vnet.cc that it can be used here, too
* Slirp doesn't compile on 64-bit Linux with GCC 4.5
* WIN32 is not supported yet
code and the generic USB stuff. Up to now, in plugin mode each host controller
staticly links all this stuff with the plugin library. So it existed twice and
e.g. it wasn't possible to create a unique serial number for disks/cdroms
connected to different HCs. Some other sanity checks could be added now, too.
- Added a register mechanism for the USB device init function in the main
devices code.
- TODO: Some other device plugins could be fixed the same way: network devices
(sharing ethernet modules), harddrive & usb_msd (sharing hdimage and
cdrom)
