libguestfs
xqemu
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10 | 4 | |
598 | 619 | |
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8.2 | 0.0 | |
10 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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libguestfs
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From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
We started off doing this, but you end up with enormous diffs which are themselves confusing. Example, only about 5% of this change is non-generated:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/5186251f8f68...
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Microsoft: Windows 10 22H2 is the final version of Windows 10
And inside the registry. The apparently correct way to distinguish them is using the build ID:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/824c74574893...
- Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items
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Is chroot possible through a VM
NDB works great but another option is libguestfs. https://libguestfs.org/
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Is there any way to access the files of a Windows 10 backup from Linux?
Have a look here
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How to extract a virtual disk image without mounting to filesystem.?
Consider using libguestfs.
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QEMU Version 6.0.0 Released
There's a lot of useful command-line tooling for KVM and QEMU-based virt. Here's a small selection of useful tools:
• virsh — This[1] is libvirt's shell interface; and gives you access to the rich set of libvirt APIs.
• virt-builder — Use this for rapidly building minimal or customized virtual machines; it's greatly flexible; check out its man page[2]. And here's[3] a quick example that connects both virt-builder and virsh together.
• virt-install — Use this if you don't like the default build of the template images from virt-builder; it lets you create "headless" servers via 'kickstart' and Linux OS trees from the command-line.
• guestfish and libguestfs suite[4] — This rich set of tools help you in a variety of use-cases: repairing your broken disk images, editing, cloning, debugging disk images, and more. It has saved my behind a lot of times.
• qemu-img[5] – This Swiss Army knife lets you powerfully manipulate disk images (QCOW2, raw, et al) offline. Example operations include: create images, backing chains, offline snapshots, disk image merging, and convert disk images from one format to another, and more.
[1] https://libvirt.org/manpages/virsh.html
[2] https://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html
[3] https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tools/virt-builder/about...
[4] http://libguestfs.org/
[5] https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tools/qemu-img.html
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How to use Python libraries effectively when they aren't in PyPI?
That's a good point. As long as the project has a setup.py or pyproject.toml available, it can usually be installed from the repo. For libguestfs it looks like they do some pre-processing on their setup.py so that wouldn't work, it's lucky that they had this alternative set up already. :)
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Probably the Simplest Way to Install Debian/Ubuntu in QEMU
Nah, this virt-install preseed script is faster, or even just run virt-builder debian-10 and they're both libvirt not hacky qemu scripts
xqemu
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why can't console games be ran natively?
These projects are called compatibility layers, or "translation layers" sometimes. I think XQEmu (OG XBox on PC) works the same.
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QEMU Version 6.0.0 Released
Yes:
https://xemu.app/
https://xqemu.com/
Are both original Xbox emulators built off of QEMU. I've only used Xemu, but performance was pretty good for the games I tried on it (it doesn't have a way to upscale rendering yet though).
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Morrowind Rebooted the Original Xbox Without You Ever Noticing
It's indeed a bit like a kexec.
On system initialization, kernel routines are copied into RAM by the bootloader[1]. Executables run in ring 0, and have a jump table to call kernel routines in their own address space (IIRC) [2].
As such, loading any executable counts as a soft reboot.
Also, there is a functioning open source emulator, Xqemu [3] (and its sibling/fork focused on speed and compatibility more than accuracy, xemu [4])
I recommend reading "17 mistakes Microsoft made in the Xbox security system", which is very informative [5].
[1]: https://xboxdevwiki.net/Boot_Process
[2]: https://xboxdevwiki.net/Kernel
[3]: https://xqemu.com/
[4]: https://xemu.app/
[5]: https://xboxdevwiki.net/17_Mistakes_Microsoft_Made_in_the_Xb...
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Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
There is one emulator currently that does do that, the "XQEMU" emulator for the original Xbox https://xqemu.com/
It's in its infant stages at the moment according to the "Emulation General" wiki and focuses heavily on "accuracy" over performance
Other emulators such as CXBX-Reloaded have made larger strides, currently emulating roughly 10% of the software library
It's also worth stating, while the Xbox seems like an "easy" target, being based on an ia-32 (Pentium III) PC with an Nvidia GeForce chip (somewhere between a Geforce 2 and 3 at the time) it is an absolutely monstrous beast with minimal documentation about its hardware and numerous "gotchas"
It also has a very small library of 'exclusive' content which detracts from gaining many developers
What are some alternatives?
guestfs-tools - Tools for accessing and modifying guest disk images
xemu - Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)
UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
Ryujinx - Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
bcc - BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more
box64 - Box64 - Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64 Linux devices
terraform-provider-libvirt - Terraform provider to provision infrastructure with Linux's KVM using libvirt
game-compatibility - Cxbx-Reloaded game compatibilty list, using GitHub issues
libguestfs-common - Common code shared between libguestfs and tools
nix-config
extract-xiso - Xbox ISO Creation/Extraction utility. Imported from SourceForge.