QEMU

You can run RTEMS in the open source processor emulator ​QEMU. The QEMU emulator runs on a number of hosts including Linux and Windows. It also supports a number of ​processors.

QEMU PC Emulator

The RTEMS PC BSP runs in the QEMU emulator.

Making a Boot Floppy Disk

We RTEMS in QEMU by first booting from a floppy disk image. You can use the image we have made by downloading it from the RTEMS ftp server. The following instructions built the image and were run on a Fedora Core 5 Linux host.

Download the latest release of version 2 the ​Grub boot loader from ​ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/. Build the package with the following configure command:

$ ../grub-1.94/configure --prefix=/tmp/g2/build $ make all install

where the prefix can be anything suitable for your machine. If configure fails with a missing LZO library check you have the lzo-devel package installed.

To make the floppy image follow the instructions in the Grub Wiki at ​http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnX86. This script is adapted from the instructions:

#! /bin/sh -x grub=/tmp/g2/build workspace=/tmp/g2 mnt=$workspace/mnt/loop file=$workspace/rtems-boot.img export PATH=$grub/bin:$grub/sbin:$PATH mkdir -p $workspace cd $workspace grub-mkimage -o core.img _chain fat dd if=/dev/zero of=$file bs=512 count=2880 /sbin/mkdosfs $file mkdir -p $mnt mount -o loop -t vfat $file $mnt mkdir -p $mnt/boot/grub cp $grub/lib/grub/i386-pc/boot.img core.img $grub/lib/grub/i386-pc/*.mod $mnt/boot/grub test -f grub.cfg && cp -f grub.cfg $mnt/boot/grub echo '(fd0)' $file > tmp_device.map grub-setup -d $mnt/boot/grub -r '(fd0)' -m tmp_device.map '(fd0)' rm -f tmp_device.map umount $mnt