It seems like you are not actually running the checkpoint after you create it. Once the checkpoint is created, append the flag
-loadvm test to your marss run string. On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:39 AM, Sungchan Kim <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm having difficulties in execution cycle measurement and using > checkpoint on MARSS. > > First of all, I want to measure "ls" command by using start_sim, stop_sim, > and kill_sim utilities on MARSS as follows. > > > ./start_sim; ls -la; /stop_sim; ./kill_sim; > > Regarding this, I have the following questions. > - Where can I get the execution cycle for the "ls -la" command after > getting the above command line done? I know MARSS provides detailed > statistical information of simulation. But the meanings of numbers are > sometimes hard to understand. I am not sure which number I should look > into. > - What actually happens inside MARSS if I execute stop_sim? I recognize > the simulation becomes slow after start_sim begins. But nothing > recognizable happens with stop_sim. (I expected the simulation speed would > get back to before executing start_sim) > > Second, I want to avoid long waiting time until Linux cold boot is done > whenever I launch MARSS. My understanding is that checkpoint would help for > that purpose. I tried to run the simple checkpoint example in the MICRO12 > tutorial. > > >./create_checkpoint test; ./FFT; ./stop_sim > > No further messages are out on guest OS afterwards, and in host console, > the following message were displayed only. > > > PTLCALL type PTLCALL_CHECKPOINT > > MARSSx86::Creating checkpoint test > > It seems that the simulator seems to get stuck after giving the command > line above on the guest OS. Any other messages did not appear after then > and key input didn't get accepted. I used Ubuntu12.04 LTS, which has been > upgraded from the original disk image on MARSS web site. > - How can I confirm that checkpoint has been successfully created? > - How can I use the checkpoint afterwards? > > The questions may be stupid. Unfortunately, it seems that the details on > the above issues are missing on MARSS website. It would be highly > appreciated if anyone can provide some instructions to follow easily. > > Best regards, > Sungchan Kim > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.marss86.org > Marss86-Devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/marss86-devel > >
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