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

[Nil Karavadara]

Hi,

Thank you for prompt reply.

At the end of the day i will be using SCC to boot barrelfish but in mean
time i wanted to play around with barrelfish.

I will get back if i have more problem with that :)

Thank you.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Timothy Roscoe <troscoe at inf.ethz.ch> wrote:

>
> Dear Nil,
>
> The Barrelfish build system builds a multiboot image which should be
> directly bootable in grub.  Have you checked out the documentation?
>
> Barrelfish will boot on as many cores as it can see or that you tell
> it (with a kernel command line option), but Qemu is only capable of
> using a single physical core.  If you want to explore multicore issues
> properly, though, you really need to boot Barrelfish on real hardware
> or a cycle-accurate simulator like GEM5.
>
>  -- Timothy Roscoe
>
> At Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:34:11 +0000, Nil Karavadara <n.karavadara at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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
> >
>



-- 
Kind Regards,
Nil Karavadara

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