Except from virgl(virtio-vga), KVMGT/XenGT, CUDA vGPU, I will introduce you another way of using 3D app in QEMU, c’est la XQEMU
Download prebuilt EmuCR-XQEMU-20170109
As you can see, this is a emulator forked from QEMU to let you playing XBOX games in PC.(not interested though…)
Get XQEMU
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git clone https://github.com/espes/xqemu.git |
Compile XQEMU
For Mac OS X
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./configure --cc=clang --enable-opengl --disable-vnc --disable-user --target-list=xbox-softmmu --extra-cflags="-march=native" --enable-debug make |
For Windows
- Install MSYS2 x86_64: Follow all the steps on http://msys2.github.io/
- Open the “MinGW-w64 Win64 Shell” and run:
1234567pacman -S git python2 make autoconf automake-wrapper mingw-w64-x86_64-libtool mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config mingw-w64-x86_64-glib2 mingw-w64-x86_64-glew mingw-w64-x86_64-SDLgit clone https://github.com/espes/xqemucd xqemugit submodule update --init pixman./configure --cc=gcc --python=python2 --enable-opengl --disable-vnc --disable-user --target-list=xbox-softmmu --extra-cflags="-march=native" --enable-debugmake
There’s a bug with timers on Windows that makes it run much slower than it should. YOU should fix it for me.
For Linux
Requirements:
- Everything QEMU requires
- OpenGL with GLX and GLEW
For Debian most build dependencies can be installed by running:
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apt-get build-dep qemu apt-get install libglew-dev libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 |
Building:
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./configure --python=python2 --enable-opengl --disable-vnc --disable-user --enable-kvm --disable-xen --audio-drv-list=alsa --target-list=xbox-softmmu --extra-cflags="-march=native" --disable-werror --enable-debug make |
Run XQEMU
XQEMU is a Low-Level Emulator, so you need to find a copy of the stuff the Xbox runs when it turns on:
Xbox MCP-X boot rom
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MD5 (mcpx_1.0.bin) = d49c52a4102f6df7bcf8d0617ac475ed |
If your mcpx dump has an MD5 of 196a5f59a13382c185636e691d6c323d you dumped it badly and it’s a couple bytes off. It should start with 0x33 0xC0 and end with 0x02 0xEE.
Xbox 1.0 compatible bios (cromwell, 3944, 4034, 4036, …)
You can use a retail bios or a modified ‘debug’ bios. Just like a real xbox, running a retail bios will not boot unofficial software.
Debug BIOS
People have reported success with the ‘COMPLEX 4627’ modified debug bios. It’s convenient to note that this bios does not necessarily require a populated hard disk image to load an application from DVD (though an empty drive still needs to be attached), so you can skip the next step in some cases.
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v1.0.2 1M dump: MD5 (Complex_4627Debug.bin) = 19b5c6d3d42a707bba620634fe6d4baf |
or sometimes
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1MB dump: MD5 (complex_4627debug.bin) = e8dd61cc6abdbd06aac185e371312dc1 |
Retail BIOS
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1M dump: MD5 (3944.bin) = e8b39b98cf775496c1c76e4f7756e6ed |
or sometimes
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256k dump: MD5 (3944.bin) = 542c62cb976a4993c8c5027dff9638ce |
Xbox dashboard files on a hard disk image
Create an Xbox hard-disk image, using xboxhdm or otherwise:
- Create an xboxhdm cd-rom with the dashboard files
- Create a blank hard-disk file:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 xbox_harddisk.qcow2 8G - Run xboxhdm with qemu or something:
i386-softmmu/qemu-system-i386 -hda xbox_harddisk.qcow2 -cdrom linux.iso
Launch XQEMU with something like…
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xbox-softmmu/qemu-system-xbox -cpu pentium3 -machine xbox,bootrom=mcpx_rom.bin -m 64 -drive file=xbox_harddisk.qcow2,index=0,media=disk,locked=on -drive index=1,media=cdrom -bios xbox_bios.bin -usb -device usb-hub,bus=usb-bus.0,port=3 -device usb-xbox-gamepad,bus=usb-bus.0,port=3.2 |
On Linux, you can use KVM by passing accel=kvm,kernel_irqchip=off to -machine. This is not yet recommended.
To skip the Xbox logo animation you can pass short_animation to the -machine option (Example: -machine xbox,short_animation,bootrom=mcpx_rom.bin).
To run a game from a Xbox DVD image you must specify a file for the DVD device