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On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Wen Zong <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Finally I was able to increase the size of the image and copied all parsec
> files to the image and now try to boot the 64-core system.
>
> But the guest Ubuntu 12.04 (precise)  cannot boot with 64-core setup.
> And the output is like this
> [image: Inline image 1]
> This seems to be the problem of the guest kernel itself.
>
>
> The ubuntu-natty.qcow2 also doesn't work with 64-core  whose output is
> like this
> [image: Inline image 2]
>
> I guess the guest kernel needs to be modified to make it work on 64-core
> processor.
>
> Best
> Wen
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Brendan Fitzgerald <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> http://marss86.org/~marss86/index.php/QEMU_Tips
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Wen Zong <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> My desktop connects the network through a proxy which makes the network
>>> setup tricky for me, so I gave up this morning.
>>>
>>> I'm now trying another approach by creating a image of ubuntu 12.04
>>> (precise) and then copy the parsec files and ./create_checkpoint etc. into
>>> my new image.
>>> I first copy the content from parsecROI.img to my host with the help
>>> kpartx command.
>>>
>>> Now the problem is that when I copy the parsec folder from my host to
>>> the new image, it doesn't have enough space.
>>> I've tried to increase the rootsize option when invoking
>>> ubuntu-vm-builder but the image size is the same as when it is set to 5120.
>>> And after mounting, the image is a 4.1GB volume.
>>> Here's my configuration:
>>>
>>> [DEFAULT]
>>> arch = amd64
>>> suite = precise
>>> rootsize = *10120 # I increased this but the raw image size doesn't
>>> change compared with 5120*
>>> addpkg = openssh-server, openssh-client, vim
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you know how to increase the size of the image?
>>>
>>> Many thanks
>>> Wen
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Brendan Fitzgerald <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You need to first convert the image to qcow2, since the parsecROI.img
>>>> is read-only.
>>>>
>>>> You'll also need to enable networking, there are a bunch of sites that
>>>> say how to do this.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Wen Zong <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Brendan
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for the suggestion.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you mean I do the upgrade in the guest OS?
>>>>> I tried this in the provided parsecROI.img and cannot upgrade
>>>>> anything.
>>>>> The IP address in parsecROI.img is 127.0.0.1 which is different from
>>>>> the default qemu network setting.
>>>>> I'm not sure if this is this the problem of the network configuration.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best
>>>>> Wen
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Brendan Fitzgerald <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> You can update the image using apt-get dist-upgrade.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I know kernel version 3.0 works fine with Marss, I can't remember off
>>>>>> the top of my head if 3.2 works, but I know 3.16 doesn't, so just be 
>>>>>> aware
>>>>>> of how recent of an Ubuntu release you go to.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 4:35 AM, Wen Zong <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm try to simulate a 64-core system and run Parsec benchmark to
>>>>>>> test its performance.
>>>>>>> However the provided parsec image is using ubuntu 9.04, which
>>>>>>> supports at most 16 cores.
>>>>>>> Could someone give some suggestion to increase the maximal number of
>>>>>>> supported cores to 64?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One possible solution is that, I can create the disk image using
>>>>>>> higher version of ubuntu which is supposed to support more 64 cores. 
>>>>>>> But I
>>>>>>> don't have the modified Parsec benchmark in which the PTLcalls are
>>>>>>> inserted to mark the Region of Interest.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Very appreciated if you can give some advices.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>>> Wen
>>>>>>>
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