Re: [Gems-users] Disk Image File

[Alaa Alameldeen <alaa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Arrvindh,

There are some options that you can use:

- Some Linux versions can support files bigger than 2GB (e.g., can 
support the ext3 file system). You might want to switch to such systems.

- You should also compress your disk images by running the simics 
utility "craff", which should be in your simics binary directory. This 
makes your simulations run faster due to fewer disk I/Os even if you do 
not need it to make disk images smaller.

- You can also split your disk image into multiple disks by partitioning 
your disk on the real machine you are using to set up benchmarks.

-Alaa

arrvindh shriraman wrote:
> I am running SIMICS on an X86 machine with Linux.
> Since my file system is ext2fs I can't support single
> disk images more than 2G.
> If I want to simulate realistic machines with specJBB
> and other benchmarks , I would need to create disk
> images and checkpoints which are > 2G.
> How can I do that ?
>
> Arrvindh Shriraman
> Conputer Science Department
> University of Rochester