Fioxa

Setup

1. Ensure qemu in installed
2. Get a copy of OVMF-pure-efi.fd and copy it into builder/ovmf/OVMF-pure-efi.fd (you can get such a file from https://github.com/rust-osdev/ovmf-prebuilt/releases).
   • If you are on a linux host, auto detection with try and use the system installed OVMF.

Building

In the builder folder run cargo run.

To also launch qemu run cargo run qemu

Build image

This only works on a linux host.

dd if=/dev/zero of=fioxa.img bs=100M count=1
mformat -i fioxa.img ::
mcopy -s -i fioxa.img fioxa/* ::

Convert image to VDI

VBoxManage convertfromraw fioxa.img fioxa.vdi

Debugging

Ensure that wait-port is installed (https://www.npmjs.com/package/wait-port). Use the VSCode "Build & Launch Kernel" debug target.