From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: "Bryan D. Payne" <bdpayne@acm.org>
Cc: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, lcapitulino@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qmp: extend QMP to provide read/write access to physical memory
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:08:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mtbdbov.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFpPvXDLHzS-BuNvrONhAqEy9khV-MeKFL_TXO3kG=GSm2bYog@mail.gmail.com> (Bryan D. Payne's message of "Wed, 3 Dec 2014 19:37:40 -0800")
"Bryan D. Payne" <bdpayne@acm.org> writes:
>>
>> Out of curiosity, what are existing solutions?
>>
>
> Basically just attaching gdb and pulling memory out manually (or writing a
> program to do the same).
Can you explain again why the existing commands to read guest memory
(from the top of my head: dump-guest-memory, memsave, pmemsave) are
insufficient? How does your solution improve on them? What exactly can
it do what these commands can't? What exactly can't it do what these
commands can?
I feel we need to understand the answers to these questions to sensibly
evolve the API in this area.
[...]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-04 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-26 8:41 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] qmp: extend QMP to provide read/write access to physical memory Bryan D. Payne
2014-11-26 8:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] " Bryan D. Payne
2014-11-26 15:16 ` Eric Blake
2014-11-26 20:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] " Bryan D. Payne
2014-11-26 20:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] " Bryan D. Payne
2014-11-27 2:04 ` Fam Zheng
2014-12-04 3:37 ` Bryan D. Payne
2014-12-04 4:57 ` Fam Zheng
2014-12-04 6:28 ` Bryan D. Payne
2014-12-04 7:38 ` Fam Zheng
2014-12-04 16:43 ` Bryan D. Payne
2014-12-05 1:20 ` Fam Zheng
2014-12-04 9:08 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2014-12-04 16:49 ` Bryan D. Payne
2014-12-05 8:44 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-12-05 21:25 ` Bryan D. Payne
2014-12-08 15:06 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-12-09 15:12 ` Bryan D. Payne
2014-12-11 3:33 ` Bryan D. Payne
2014-12-11 5:45 ` Fam Zheng
2014-12-11 6:07 ` Bryan D. Payne
2014-12-12 2:28 ` Bryan D. Payne
2014-12-12 3:29 ` Fam Zheng
2014-12-01 22:10 ` Eric Blake
2014-12-03 23:07 ` Bryan D. Payne
2014-12-04 15:08 ` Eric Blake
2014-12-04 16:50 ` Bryan D. Payne
2014-12-04 18:40 ` Bryan D. Payne
2014-12-04 22:43 ` Eric Blake
2014-12-01 22:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] " Eric Blake
2014-12-02 4:36 ` Bryan D. Payne
2014-12-02 5:26 ` Fam Zheng
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