virtualboxvxworkstftp

VxWorks and Virtual Box

I am setting up a virtual machine with virtualbox with vxworks 7 as guest.

I follow the guide from the windriver documentation but I think something is missing. So, I am able to create successfully the virtual machine, but I need to load the boot file vxWorks, (created in the multi-stage boot application) using tftp.

So far, so good, I don't know if I should load the boot image using tftp or not though. The thing is that I have no ssh access, therefore I cannot debug any application.

I have tried rebuilding with all the SSH features enabled in the vsb.vxconfig file (IPNET_SSH, OPENSSL, SEC_CRYPTO, USER_MANAGEMENT, etc) and still no luck with ssh. Any hints?

Solution

  • PXE TFTP is a primitive protocol which has exactly nothing to do with SSH2.

    See the documentation:

    6.3.2. PXE booting with NAT

    PXE booting is now supported in NAT mode. The NAT DHCP server provides a boot file name of the form vmname.pxe if the directory TFTP exists in the directory where the user's VirtualBox.xml file is kept. It is the responsibility of the user to provide vmname.pxe.

    Create a directory called TFTP inside %appdata%\.VirtualBox or ~/.VirtualBox and put the .pxe file into there... this should then be loaded when booting from PXE. The default IP of that TFTP server would be 10.0.2.4.