Hi Brian, thanks for the tip about vvfat. It's pretty neet for testing, especially since the whole build output folder can be mounted that way. I guess I will write a blog post or something so I don't forget it in the future.
Also, I think it would be a great idea if BaseTools contained a script to run/test the applications in qemu. Ayush Singh On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 3:36 AM Brian J. Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Qemu's virtual VFAT (vvfat) disk type is a convenient way to test UEFI > applications. It presents a folder on the host as a VFAT file system to > the guest. It's not the fastest or the most stable disk type (be > careful not to modify files from the host while the guest is running), > but it's really handy. > > Another way to put a file on a UEFI VFAT disk image for qemu is to use > mtools (https://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/), a set of user-mode > programs which can manipulate FAT disk images. You can write some > scripts around them to automate your workflow, similarly to uefi-run. > I've done that quite a bit in the past. > > Good luck, > Brian J. Johnson > > -------- Original Message -------- > From: Ayush Singh [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 3, 2022, 11:49 AM > To: edk2-devel-groups-io <[email protected]> > Subject: [edk2-devel] Running and Testing Modules and Applications > > Hello everyone, I wanted to ask everyone how most modules and > applications are run/tested in edk2. I will be working on Adding Rust > support for edk2 during GSoC and thus will probably have to do a lot > of primitive testing. I did look at the EmulationPkg but didn't really > understand how to use it. It simply drops me into gdb, although maybe > that's what it is supposed to do? > > There were also some GUI programs (VisualUefi) that can be used in > windows, but since I am in Linux, they aren't much useful. I also > found a tutorial to run it in a physical machine > (https://tait.tech/2021/04/18/uefi-development-environment/ > ), but that > seems more for the final testing rather than testing during > development. > > I have also tried using qemu for running applications, and I guess I > was somewhat successful by using the script: > `https://github.com/Richard-W/uefi-run` to test out uefi applications > in qemu. However, it builds a FAT filesystem around the EFI > application, so I was wondering if there was a better and simpler way > to do it. > > Ayush Singh > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#90207): https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/90207 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/91525281/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/unsub [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
