AMD Confidential
User Manual September 12h, 2008
178 Chapter 15: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What do you need to run the simulator?
See Section 2, “Installation”, on page 3.
What generic BSD files are provided with the simulator?
See Section A.2.1, “Computer Platform Files”, on page 184.
How do I load a BSD file?
See Section 5.1.1, “Open a Simulation Definition File”, on page 36.
How do I Start, Stop, Reset, Press Soft Sleep, or Press Soft Power for simulations?
See Section 3.1, “Tool Bar Buttons”, on page 7.
What kind of hardware does the simulator require?
See Section 2.1, “System Requirements”, on page 3.
What host operating systems can the simulator be run on?
See Section 2.1, “System Requirements”, on page 3.
What Guest operating systems are supported?
See Section A.3, “Supported Guest Operating Systems”, on page 186.
What devices are supported?
See Section 7, “Device Configuration”, on page 49.
What about graphics/video adapter?
See Section 1, “Overview”, on page 1 and Se ction 7.4, “Emerald Graphics Device on
page 61.
What about networking?
See Section 7.24, “E1000 Network Adapter Device”, on page 120.
How does the simulator access media? What are Hard Disk, DVD-/ CD-ROM Disk, or
Floppy Disk images?
See Section 4, “Disk Images”, on page 31.
How do I create Disk images? What is DiskTool?
See Section 4, “Disk Images”, on page 31.
How do I attach to a Hard Disk, DVD-/CD-ROM Disk, or Floppy Disk image?
All three kinds of images, including blank Hard Disk images of the desired size, can be
created on both Windows 64 Beta and Linux-64 Hosts with our DiskTool program
provided in the simulator release package.