Thank you so much, i also have the sudo problem here. I'll definitely try your tool.
Christian Il 28/mar/2014 16:35 "Paul Rosenfeld" <[email protected]> ha scritto: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gem5-users >
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