Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Apr 1999 22:12:54 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Steven N. Hirsch" <> | Subject | Re: Speed up Development cycle!! Linux under SimOS |
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On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Rayson Ho wrote:
> Is anyone using a machine simulator on Linux? > > A machine simulator simulates the behaviour of a > machine, including CPU(s), memory, L1/2/3 caches, > buses, and other hardware devices. I think it helps if > we can run Linux under such a simulator. We can find > out where the kernel is spending most of the time > waiting, etc. Moreover, we can find the behaviour of a > normal application, including the number of kernel > calls, network access pattern, memory access pattern, > cache miss, etc.
I believe that VMWare plans to provide this sort of debugging hooks. Their current Beta will run Linux under Linux as a guest OS (also NT4.0, Win95, Win98, *BSD, etc.).
Steve
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