No, you don't need to have root privileges on the machine that you're running M5 on, but you do need them on some system because the mount requires root privileges. You could run linux inside a VM or with a emulator such as Bochs for this purpose.
Ali On Nov 12, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Bob Nagel wrote: > Hello, > > I want to run some of my own tests in FS mode, and I have seen here > http://www.m5sim.org/wiki/index.php/Using_linux-dist_to_Create_Disk_Images_and_Kernels_for_M5 > > , that to create the disk image and to add files to it I need to > have root privileges. Is there any way to avoid this?, I am able to > run the benchmarks that comes with the installation of FS, is there > any way to add my binaries to that disk image. Thank you so much. > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
