On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 01:00 -0700, Atoosaah S wrote: > I'd appreciate any input on how to run gprof successfully on qemu. I'm > new to gprof and am probably missing some steps. I successfully ran > gprof on a sorting program available online, then I attempted to run > gprof on qemu. > > Here are the steps I take: > > I'm trying to run gprof on qemu, but am unsuccessful. my os is linux, > my qemu version is 0.8.2. I configure qemu with the options "configure > --prefix=/install_path --enable-gprof. Then I make and make install. I > run qemu successfully using the options /install_path/qemu -hda > diskimage.img -m 256 which results in the gmon.out file. My run of > qemu involved starting the image (virtual linux OS), running a few > simple commands and shutting the image down. > > Finally, I run gprof /intsall_path/qemu gmon.out > result.txt which > gives the error: gprof: file 'qemu' has no symbols' > > Are there any other configuration options required? Should the image > be run with differently?
You need a qemu executable with debugging symbols. Distributed versions are usually stripped, which means the debug symbols are not present anymore. A way to get the debug symbol is to fetch the source and recompile it... -- J. Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Never organized
