[Barrelfish-users] Running Barrelfish on vmware player & qemu

[Nil Karavadara]

Hi Timothy,

Thank you for quick reply.
Is there any documentation as how to use grub to boot barrelfish?

While i was going through mail-archive i noticed that barrelfish uses only
one physical core. but when i boot it on more then one core in Qemu how
would i know that it has started on all the cores specified (and how do i
specify number of core to boot exactly)?

Thank you.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Timothy Roscoe <troscoe at inf.ethz.ch> wrote:

>
> Hi Nil,
>
> It will probably work, but we haven't tried it.  The most likely
> problem will be with ACPI or PCI code.   We at ETHZ run Barrelfish on
> Qemu (when we're not using real hardware), and the Microsoft folks
> boot on Hyper-V without any trouble.   We also work on GEM5.
>
> Since we use grub to boot Barrelfish on real hardware, I'm guessing
> that would be the best way to boot it under VMware.
>
> By the way, as you probably know, Barrelfish will boot on Qemu with
> more than one (virtual) core, but Qemu will only use a single physical
> core regardless of the number of virtual cores.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>  -- Timothy Roscoe
>
> At Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:20:51 +0000, Nil Karavadara <n.karavadara at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way to boot barrelfish on vmware player (4.0.1 build-528992
> > running on windows 7). If yes, can someone point me in to the direction
> as
> > how it can be done.
> >
> > i have tried to run it on qemu (qemu-kvm-0.14.1 running on ubuntu 11.10)
> i
> > am able to boot it see fish prompt. how do i make it boot on more then
> one
> > core in qemu.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > --
> > Kind Regards,
> > Nil Karavadara
> >
> > Centre for Computer Science and Informatics Research
> > Science & Technology Research Institute
> > University of Hertfordshire
> >
>



-- 
Kind Regards,
Nil Karavadara

Centre for Computer Science and Informatics Research
Science & Technology Research Institute
University of Hertfordshire
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