Guest Binaries

Manual Download
Google Cloud Utilities (gsutil)

We provide a set of useful prebuilt binaries users can download (in case they don’t want to recompile them from scratch).

There are two ways of downloading them:

Via Manual Download
Via Google Cloud Utilities

Manual Download

Here follows a list of prebuilt binaries to be downloaded by just clicking the link:

Arm FS Binaries

Latest Linux Kernel Image / Bootloader (recommended)

The tarball below contains a set of binaries: the Linux kernel and a set of bootloaders

http://dist.gem5.org/dist/v22-0/arm/aarch-system-20220707.tar.bz2

Latest Linux Disk Images (recommended)

http://dist.gem5.org/dist/v22-0/arm/disks/ubuntu-18.04-arm64-docker.img.bz2

Partition table: yes

gem5 init:
- default (using m5 ops): /init.gem5
- kvm (using m5 –addr ops): /init.addr.gem5
- fast models (using m5 –semi ops): /init.semi.gem5
http://dist.gem5.org/dist/v22-0/arm/disks/aarch32-ubuntu-natty-headless.img.bz2

Old Linux Kernel/Disk Image

These images are not supported. If you run into problems, we will do our best to help, but there is no guarantee these will work with the latest gem5 version

Disk images only

Disk and kernel images

Google Cloud Utilities (gsutil)

gsutil is a Python application that lets you access Cloud Storage from the command line. Please have a look at the following documentation which will guide you through the process of installing the utility

gsutil tool

Once installed (NOTE: It require you to provide a valid google account) it will be possible to inspect/download gem5 binaries via the following command line.

gsutil cp -r gs://dist.gem5.org/dist/<binary>