[DISCUSSION] VirtualBox - Update, SLP & SLIC

Discussion in 'Virtualization' started by cigolo_, Dec 30, 2008.

  1. LostED

    LostED SVF Patch Lover

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  2. bobpaul

    bobpaul MDL Novice

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    Any chance you could provide some info on how you did this? I can build VirtualBox from source, but the only instructions I've previously seen for keeping the BIOS file up to date involved hexediting the bios binary. Maintaining a patch against the source code seems like it would be easier.
     
  3. Carlos Detweiller

    Carlos Detweiller Emperor of Ice-Cream

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  4. atreyu

    atreyu MDL Junior Member

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    hi everybody

    we must replace the sting "SLICTable" with "CustomTable" to work for version 6

    atreyu
     
  5. Carlos Detweiller

    Carlos Detweiller Emperor of Ice-Cream

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    CustomTable is already in 5.2. Actually, SLICTable is not mentioned anymore in the manual and only kept for backwards-compatibility. It can safely be replaced now.
     
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    sr71 MDL Junior Member

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    #597 sr71, Dec 22, 2018
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    Thank you!
     
  7. nospamboz

    nospamboz MDL Novice

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    Any word on whether VirtualBox 6 needs a new BIOS ROM file for XP Mode VM?
     
  8. AintBigAintClever

    AintBigAintClever MDL Novice

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    Are there additional steps required to get a custom SLIC to work where the host is Mac OSX (running on Mac hardware)? I've tried on both 5.2.22 and 6.0.0 and both seem to be ignoring the ExtraDataItem entries in the vbox file. Even deliberately fudging the SLIC filename doesn't throw an error, nothing appears in the logs and RWEverything shows the standard VBOX stuff (and no SLIC table) despite the VboxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/Dmi commands.
     
  9. Carlos Detweiller

    Carlos Detweiller Emperor of Ice-Cream

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    Being a major release, almost certainly.

    Are you using the correct entries?
    Code:
          <ExtraDataItem name="VBoxInternal/Devices/acpi/0/Config/CustomTable" value="path/to/your/SLICTABLE.bin"/>
    DMI is only for SLP 1.0 (Windows XP).