Running and Testing Modules and Applications

["Ayush Singh" <ayushdevel1325@gmail.com>]

Hello everyone, I wanted to ask everyone how most modules and
applications are run/tested in edk2. I will be working on Adding Rust
support for edk2 during GSoC and thus will probably have to do a lot
of primitive testing. I did look at the EmulationPkg but didn't really
understand how to use it. It simply drops me into gdb, although maybe
that's what it is supposed to do?

There were also some GUI programs (VisualUefi) that can be used in
windows, but since I am in Linux, they aren't much useful. I also
found a tutorial to run it in a physical machine
(https://tait.tech/2021/04/18/uefi-development-environment/), but that
seems more for the final testing rather than testing during
development.

I have also tried using qemu for running applications, and I guess I
was somewhat successful by using the script:
`https://github.com/Richard-W/uefi-run` to test out uefi applications
in qemu. However, it builds a FAT filesystem around the EFI
application, so I was wondering if there was a better and simpler way
to do it.

Ayush Singh