Re: [Qemu-devel] Simple, bootable benchmark floppy image

[Leonardo E. Reiter]

As an additional note, we realize this could have been probably been 
done with just the linux-user mode.  However for us it was important to 
benchmark a full softmmu session, since that is what we are using for 
our products.

- Leo Reiter

Leonardo E. Reiter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we just created a simple bootable 1.44MB floppy image that runs nbench 
> (Linux version of the old BYTEmark CPU/FPU/memory benchmark) inside a 
> QEMU session.  The nice thing is that the image boots a Linux kernel and 
> runs nbench automatically, then "powers off" with APM causing QEMU to 
> exit.  Also, it is designed to be run with -nographic since it pipes all 
> output to the serial port.  This gives us a convenient way to quickly 
> run standardized benchmarks and capture the output on the host.

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