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From: "J. Mayer" <l_indien@magic.fr>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Atoosaah S <atoosaah@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Unable to Run Gprof Successfully on QEMU
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:26:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1192177597.9976.250.camel@rapid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3578ab90710120100x5c0170casf41589aa2eb01a2d@mail.gmail.com>

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 <l_indien@magic.fr>
Never organized

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-12  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-12  8:00 [Qemu-devel] Unable to Run Gprof Successfully on QEMU Atoosaah S
2007-10-12  8:26 ` J. Mayer [this message]
2007-10-12 15:13   ` Atoosaah S
2007-10-12 15:47     ` Ben Taylor
2007-10-12 18:55       ` Atoosaah S

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