First of all, congratulations for the MARSSx86 creators. Reading the official page and the paper about it, I've found it pretty interesting and straightforward!
I am currently doing research with RTOS performance and power consumption, and by this moment, looking for power consumption simulators, and MARSSx86 looked like exactly what I wanted. I've installed in my Windows 7 64-bit a Kubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit under VirtualBox, and then did all the installing sequence for MARSSx86. But when I try to execute parsecROI.img (the one provided in the website), using 1024M as memory, I got an infinite loop crashing initialization, going back to GRUB counting and crashing again. Took me a while, but I got the last error messages (there's more thing displayed, but it refreshes the screen every "loop iteration"...): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ mountall: Filesystem could not be mounted: /var/run EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 1057077 EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 1057077 mount: error while loading shared libraries: libblkid.so.1: cannot open shared object file: Input/output error mountall: mount /var/lock [503] terminated with status 127 mountall: Filesystem could not be mounted: /var/lock EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 1057077 EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 1057077 mount: error while loading shared libraries: libblkid.so.1: cannot open shared object file: Input/output error mountall: mount /lib/init/rw [504] terminated with status 127 mountall: Filesystem could not be mounted: /lib/init/rw init: mountall main process (498) terminated with status 4 Mount of root filesystem failed. A maintenance shell will now be started. CONTROL-D will terminate the shell and reboot the system. EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 1174661 /dev/fd/8: 27: /sbin/sulogin: Input/output error init: mountall-shell main process (507) terminated with status 2 EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 1057077 EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 1057077 mount: error while loading shared libraries: libblkid.so.1: cannot open shared object file: Input/output error ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Does someone have some clue? I've tried to run also under sudo permission, with memory_size equals to 1024 and 4G too, but no results. As a last resort, I`ve tried the other 5 Ubuntu options under GRUB (when ESC is pressed), but again, nothing. Besides this, just some other questions: a) how can I redirect this output to a file? I did the "dummy way", taking screenshots and typing... b) what exactly is the "memory_size" parameter, and which values should I use? c) is it possible that the problem is that I'm running a Virtual Machine under another Virtual Machine? d) when I'm able to configure everything, how can I run a power consumption simulation (standalone application, like a "hello world", but also more complex ones, like FreeRTOS)? e) is there any tutorial on how can I run tests? Is more QEMU commands or MARSSx86 commands? What is recommended for me to read in order to understand and produce more using it? Thanks in advance. _______________________________________________ http://www.marss86.org Marss86-Devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.cs.binghamton.edu/mailman/listinfo/marss86-devel
