From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DIyGb-00020g-KF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:19:34 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DIyGa-0001v2-V1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:19:33 -0400 Received: from [216.58.162.138] (helo=netraverse.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (SSL 3.0:RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DIyP5-0005Ur-91 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:28:19 -0400 Received: from [69.165.224.96] (account lreiter HELO [10.1.0.1]) by netraverse.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.5) with ESMTP-TLS id 5480933 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2005 17:44:33 -0600 Message-ID: <42532D05.7040706@win4lin.com> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:27:49 -0400 From: "Leonardo E. Reiter" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Simple, bootable benchmark floppy image References: <42532A31.7010701@win4lin.com> In-Reply-To: <42532A31.7010701@win4lin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org As an additional note, we realize this could have been probably been done with just the linux-user mode. However for us it was important to benchmark a full softmmu session, since that is what we are using for our products. - Leo Reiter Leonardo E. Reiter wrote: > Hello, > > we just created a simple bootable 1.44MB floppy image that runs nbench > (Linux version of the old BYTEmark CPU/FPU/memory benchmark) inside a > QEMU session. The nice thing is that the image boots a Linux kernel and > runs nbench automatically, then "powers off" with APM causing QEMU to > exit. Also, it is designed to be run with -nographic since it pipes all > output to the serial port. This gives us a convenient way to quickly > run standardized benchmarks and capture the output on the host. -- Leonardo E. Reiter Vice President of Engineering Win4Lin, Inc. Virtual Computing from Desktop to Data Center Main: +1 512 339 7979 Fax: +1 512 532 6501 http://www.win4lin.com