Recommended Computer System Simulators
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21500890I am wondering if there are any computer system simulators that can run software on top of it, can mimic the characteristics of real hardware (for example, simulating the performance characteristics of a 5400 RPM hard disk and a 300MHz Pentium II at exactly that speed) and provide real-time performance statistics for the simulated system? The computer architecture doesn't have to be x86; it could be any 32- or 64-bit system such as PowerPC, SPARC, MIPS, Alpha, Itanium, ARM, RISC-V, etc. I understand that emulators such as QEMU exist, but I don't believe these emulators provide the simulated performance or the performance monitoring tools that I need.