Hi Timon,

Good to hear.

Rather than starting with a different disk, what I usually do is have two
disk images. One for boot and one for the workloads. After I resume from
the checkpoint, I then mount the second disk with the workloads on it.

Jason

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 7:18 AM Timon Evenblij <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks, the hack_back script works great!
> Another follow up question, can we resume checkpoints with different disk
> images? I guess this one is trickier, but if the boot related files are not
> changed, this should work right, since all architectural state is the same
> then.
> I have tried this and it seems to be working, but I want to be sure I
> don't run into issues because of this.
>
> Regards
>
> Timon
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Ciro Santilli <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Timon Evenblij
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > A quick question: Is it possible to restore from a checkpoint with a
>> > different runscript then used during the first boot?
>> > This way, I could run a lot of benchmarks without losing time waiting
>> for
>> > gem5 to boot.
>> > I know I could boot interactively and then checkpoint, but restoring
>> then
>> > requires me to use m5term and execute the benchmark command manually,
>> which
>> > is a pain if I want to do a lot of benchmark simulations in parallel.
>> >
>>
>> I'd just use the checkpoints and expect as mentioned at:
>>
>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7013137/automating-telnet-session-using-bash-scripts
>>
>> E.g.:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/expect
>> spawn telnet localhost 3456
>> expect "# $"
>> send "pwd\r"
>> send "ls /\r"
>> send "m5 exit\r"
>> expect eof
>>
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Timon
>> >
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