It is much easier to mount the existing disk image, than to make a new
one, unless you are adding an addition disk to the configuration.
After you have done the mount command (which you may have to prefix
with sudo, depending on your flavor of Linux), you then need to copy
the files to the mount point, verify the permissions and ownership (I
make all the files I copy onto the disk have root ownership and
group), and then umount it with (sudo) umount /mount/point.
You will still need vmlinux, as that is loaded separately from the
disk image.
- Clint
On Nov 12, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Bob Nagel wrote:
> Thanks for your answer Clint, I know how to move the files, so the
> thing that I should do is:
>
> - Follow the steps from here Using linux-dist to Create Disk Images
> and Kernels for M5 to create my disk image
> - Add the binaries using this commnad /bin/mount -o loop,offset=32256
> /z/foo.img /mount/point
> - Submit the image and point the configuration py file to the image
> file
>
> To run the simulation do I still need to install the vmlinux in the
> machine that is running the simulation?. Thank you so much for your
> help.
>
> 2008/11/12 Clint Smullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> If you install Linux into a virtual machine (Bochs, VirtualPC,
>> VMWare, etc.), you will have root privilege and will be able to
>> mount the disk image within the virtual machine to make changes
>> (albeit using sudo mount ...). I move the disk images around using
>> scp, which performs file transfers through a SSH session. If you
>> have SSH access to the server that M5 is running on, then this is
>> the simplest way of getting it working. If you happen to have a
>> real Linux machine which you have root privilege on, you can do the
>> same procedure to get the files moved. Other methods for copying
>> the files would be FTP, SMB, or any other method that you normally
>> use for copying files onto and off of that machines access.
>> - Clint
>>
>> On Nov 12, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Bob Nagel wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ali thanks for your answer, I do not know what you mean. Are you
>> saying that I should create the Disk Image in another machine in
>> which I have root privileges? and after how do I submit that disk
>> image to the machine in which I have m5 installed?, I should run
>> the simulation in that machine because it is much faster than mine.
>> Thank you.
>>
>> 2008/11/12 Ali Saidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>
>>> No, you don't need to have root privileges on the machine that
>>> you're
>>> running M5 on, but you do need them on some system because the mount
>>> requires root privileges. You could run linux inside a VM or with a
>>> emulator such as Bochs for this purpose.
>>>
>>> Ali
>>>
>>> On Nov 12, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Bob Nagel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I want to run some of my own tests in FS mode, and I have seen
>>>> here
>>>> http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Using_linux-dist_to_Create_Disk_Images_and_Kernels_for_M5
>>>> , that to create the disk image and to add files to it I need to
>>>> have root privileges. Is there any way to avoid this?, I am able
>>>> to
>>>> run the benchmarks that comes with the installation of FS, is there
>>>> any way to add my binaries to that disk image. Thank you so much.
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