10ms (the default) is ridiculous and causes all kinds of glitches if we
actually want to have a low-latency queue.
<https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1076#note_996636777>
suggests 2ms (and no lower than 1ms). This improves audio glitch
resistance at our current 512 sample buffer size, but going lower is
still not possible.
With this device being added, we can now boot into graphics mode on
these platforms too. For ISA-PC machine this is basically the only
viable option to use, but in the future, we should remove this device
for the microvm machine type as it should allow us to determine better
options and detect them by using a given device tree blob.
We don't need this AHCI controller to be present as we already have one
in the Q35 machine. This will help using the correct boot device in GRUB
setups later on.
This commit bumps the required QEMU version to 6.2 and updates the
version checking logic in Meta/run.sh to support checking against
major and minor version numbers instead of checking against the major
version only
This let us test the VMWare SVGA adapter easily. We already use the std
vga (which is compatible with bochs-display that only lacks VGA support)
on the i440FX QEMU machine so we keep testing it there too, and on the
Q35 machine we use a bochs-display device as secondary display.
Before, we wouldn't enable virtualization on Windows anymore unless
SERENITY_VIRTUALIZATION_SUPPORT was set explicitly. As far as we know,
there's no automatic way of detecting whether WHPX is enabled or not. So
we'll just enable virtualization on Windows by default, and if that
doesn't work the user can still disable it manually with
SERENITY_VIRTUALIZATION_SUPPORT=0.
4k logical blocks are better for block devices in QEMU as they align
with the underlying filesystem which typically has 4k logical blocks
such as our EXT2 filesystem.
run.sh builds i686 by default, and the aarch64 port of serenity
isn't very far along yet.
Without this change, `run.sh` without arguments unceremoniously
fails with:
[0/1] cd .../serenity/Build/i686 && /usr...
ENITY_ARCH=i686 /home/thakis/src/serenity/Meta/run.sh
qemu-system-i386: invalid accelerator kvm
That's because /dev/kvm exists, but that's no good on a non-intel host.
As there is no need for a Prekernel on aarch64, the Prekernel code was
moved into Kernel itself. The functionality remains the same.
SERENITY_KERNEL_AND_INITRD in run.sh specifies a kernel and an inital
ramdisk to be used by the emulator. This is needed because aarch64
does not need a Prekernel and the other ones do.
The microvm machine type is a modern tool for kernel and firmware
developers to test their software against features like FDTs, second
IOAPIC, lack of legacy devices by default, the ability of using PCIe
without using PCI x86 IO ports, etc.
We can boot into such machine but we are limited in the functionality we
support currently for this type of virtual machine.
The ISA-PC machine type provides no PCI bus support, no IOAPIC support
and other modern PC features of our generation.
This is mainly a good environment for testing abstractions in the kernel
space, and can help with improving on them for the sake of porting the
OS to other chipsets and CPU architectures.
Previously we added it only if spice was available, but it's possible to
build qemu with --disable-spice --enable-spice-protocol, which provides
qemu-vdagent but no spicevmc. In such case we still configured
qemu-vdagent to use "vdagent" device, but never actually defined it, so
the qemu-vdagent was never working.
QEMU crashes on M1 Macs when using `--accel hvf` option.
To solve this, detect the host's architecture and only add the
`--accel hvf` parameter if we are running on a "x86_64" machine.
This will allow "arm64" machines like M1 Macs to work correctly.
Add an option to enable NVMe storage device as the boot
drive.
To enable NVMe support, run the following:
$ SERENITY_NVME_ENABLE=1 Meta/serenity.sh run i686 root=/dev/nvme0n1
I've seen how @awesomekling changes the script to disable KVM, so
that's a useful thing to have.
An example how to use it:
SERENITY_KVM_SUPPORT='0' ./Meta/serenity.sh run x86_64
My first commit btw :^)
Bootmode used to control framebuffers, panic behavior, and SystemServer.
This patch factors framebuffer control into a separate flag.
Note that the combination 'bootmode=self-test fbdev=on' leads to
unexpected behavior, which can only be fixed in a later commit.
This option is similar to the qgrub option, but instead of starting a
QEMU PIIX4 machine, it starts a QEMU Q35 machine, booting a grub image
disk within it.
