Re: [Qemu-devel] Run program without kernel. Possible? (part 2)

[Marco Matthies <marco-ml@gmx.net>]

[sorry for posting this back to the list, but i'm too lazy to register 
for the forum]

Luis Pureza wrote:
 > Is it possible to run some program with qemu without a kernel attached?
 >
 > I'm involved in a project to create an emulator for the leon2 
processor (which is sparc-like). In order to estimate the kind of 
performance gains we can achieve using dynamic transalation, I'd like to 
run some small benchmarks without the overhead of the operative system.

If i understand you correctly, you want to try qemu-user. Beware that 
when benchmarking, qemu-user should probably be faster than qemu-system, 
as it doesn't have to emulate the os and hardware.

Marco