> By my understanding, the disk image for full system simulation is > read-only by default. So any data written onto it will be lost after > simulation (I am new here. Please correct if I am wrong. ) Is there > any way that I can change this configuration and keep the changes on > the disk image? This is true. We've inserted a copy-on-write layer on top of the disk image so that your changes aren't visible to the file. If you remove this copy on write layer and mark the image read/write, you can modify the image that way.
> This is meaningful if a benchmark writes some intermediate results on > to disk, and I care only the computation after it generating these > results. So I can make a checkpoint of whole system including the disk > image, and simulate from the checkpoint. The other case is that, if a > benchmark comes in a installation package, I'd like to run the > installation in the simulated system and leave the installed benchmark > on the disk image. You can do these things, but realize that they're going to be pretty slow. Nate _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
