Thanks for posting this. I am going to be using gem5 on some machines that I don't have root access on and this is going to be super helpful.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Matt Poremba <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > > This probably isn't exactly the answer you are looking for, but I wrote a > tool that allows you to mount the host file system running gem5 (similar to > /host in simics if you are familiar with that). If you're interested, you > can try it out and see if it works for you. Git remotes and guide are here: > > https://github.com/abmerop/gem5fs > https://bitbucket.org/mrp5060/gem5fs > > (I actually wrote this because I don't have sudo access on my university > machine to mount disk images. But you can see if it solves this problem > too.) > > -- > Matt Poremba > Ph.D. Candidate > 354B IST Building > Pennsylvania State University > University Park, PA 16802 > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Christian Pinto <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am Christian Pinto, PhD student at university of Bologna. >> >> I am actually working on gem5-gpu, but i ran into a problem which i think >> is strictly related to gem5. >> >> For my project i need to run different benchmarks on gem5-gpu, booting >> linux on x86 64bit (the kernel is Linux x86_64-vmlinux-2.6.28.4-smp). >> >> Since the boot is quite long, i thought to take a checkpoint just after >> the boot is completed. Then when i change the benchmark i should just >> modify the disk image, and run again gem5 resuming the simulation from the >> checkpoint. >> >> The checkpoint part worked fine, gem5 resumes just aftre the boot. The >> problem is that the disk image is not changing, even if i have mounted the >> image, deleted a file and put a new one inside. When i boot the system i >> still see the old file. It is frustrating to wait the whole boot for each >> benchmark i run. >> >> I have also tried to disable the COW image, and gem 5 is directly working >> on the raw disk image. >> >> Am i doing something wrong? Can you give me some help? Even a different >> method to dynamically modify the disk image is welcome. >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Christian >> >> >> -- >> Christian Pinto >> >> *PhD Student - *DEI Department >> University of Bologna >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Tel: +39 0512093938 >> Address: GPULab - Via Saragozza, 8. Bologna, Italy >> web: www-micrel.deis.unibo.it/~pinto >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gem5-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >
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