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From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@hypervisorconsulting.com>
To: Florian Pester <florian.pester@tu-dresden.de>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VMCALL to KVM userspace?
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:55:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130814195549.GE15643@needle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <520A43CD.1040809@tu-dresden.de>

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 04:33:49PM +0200, Florian Pester wrote:

> for a uni project I'm trying to write a userspace for KVM that can
> run ELF binaries without a full blown OS in the guest. The idea is
> to handle any syscalls made by the binary running inside the guest
> in the userspace of the host. In the simplest case you could forward
> them to the host Linux kernel.

Sounds a lot like Dune,
http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/belay:dune.pdf.

> If this is correct, is there any way to make a call to the host VMM,
> that will be transfered to userspace by KVM?

(Paolo already answered)

Cheers,
Muli

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-14 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-13 14:33 VMCALL to KVM userspace? Florian Pester
2013-08-13 15:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-14 19:55 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]

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