Building Chromium OS for QEMU for Linux Mint missing build file

[bob olbrich]

Hello,

I'm trying to do something beyond my experience.

I found a site for building Chromium OS for QEMU.

The procedure they detailed follows:

mkdir chromiumos

cd chromiumos

repo init -u https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/manifest.git --repo-url https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/repo.git -g minilayout

repo sync -j75

cros_sdk

export BOARD=amd64-generic

./setup_board --board=${BOARD}

./build_packages --board=${BOARD}

./build_image --board=${BOARD} --boot_args "earlyprintk=serial,keep console=tty0" --noenable_rootfs_verification test

./image_to_vm.sh --board=${BOARD} --test_image

I completed the steps through cros_sdk.

At that  point setup_board was not in the current folder.

The other three builds - build_packages, build_image, and image_to_vm - were present.

Is this procedure outdated? Did I do something wrong?

Can someone help a first timer?

Thanks

[Mike Frysinger]

the docs you're reading are out of date.  don't run setup_board at all.

-mike

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[bob olbrich]

OK, Mike.

I tried build_packages and got fatal errors.

I modified the procedure to the following:

mkdir chromiumos

cd chromiumos

repo init -u https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/manifest.git

repo sync -j $(nproc)

cros_sdk

export BOARD=amd64-generic

./build_packages --board=${BOARD}

./build_image --board=${BOARD}

./image_to_vm.sh --board=${BOARD}

and received no errors!!!

I then invoked QEMU with:

cd chromiumos
/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 \
    -enable-kvm \
    -m 2G \
    -smp 4 \
    -hda src/build/images/amd64-generic/R90-13755.0.2021_01_28_1949-a1/chromiumos_qemu_image.bin \
    -vga virtio \
    -net nic,model=virtio \
    -net user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:9222-:22 \
    -usb -device usb-mouse -device usb-kbd

and Chromium OS booted successfully!!!

BUT,.....

I'm having keyboard trouble at the login page. I can't get the "@" symbol to enter to type the email address!

With the default keyboard selected, it seems the shift or caps lock does not work on the row of numeric keys.

(1234567890   !@#$%^&*(),  etc). Hmm, for a second there they were not working as I typed this response, but now work fine!

A Linux issue?? I'll do some more investigating and post a new topic if I can't figure it out.