Re: [Qemu-devel] Help for beginner

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Ady Wahyudi Paundu <awpaundu@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all, Happy New Year (not too late I hope)
> I also hope you guys don't' mind to be bothered by newbie questions
> related to Qemu, because I really don't know where else to ask.  I
> want to learn how several aspects of qemu works, and it really hard to
> find resources (physical or virtual) about it.  From qemu
> documentation "QEMU does not have a high level design description
> document - only the source code tells the full story"
> My question, if i want to learn CPU and/or Network related operation
> within Qemu, what file (or function) should i put my focus into?

If you are interested in the TCG emulation then you'll probably want to
start with:

target-${PROCESSOR}/translate.c

Where the instruction decode is carried out to translate guest
instructions into TCG ops which are then used to generate host code.


> for
> example, simple ping operation from within a guest VM will use what
> functions?
> Thank you in advance.
>
> regards,
> ady

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Alex Bennée