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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Cutter 409 <cutter409@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mapping guest memory from another process?
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 10:47:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130904084746.GA9654@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG4Ohu9qjiwycQrRmoC3gq5o-s-aASh_+-gnZdEmCjvFQcoGcg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 07:56:33PM -0400, Cutter 409 wrote:
> I'm working on a tool that needs the ability to map the physical
> memory of a virtual machine into its own address space. With Xen, I
> can simply call xc_map_foreign_pages().
> 
> Is there something similar for KVM? So far, I can only figure out how
> to do it if I were the process that created the VM (then I could
> mmap() the handle of the virtual machine). Is there a way for an
> outside process to do this?

You can get QEMU to do a shared mapping of a files as guest RAM using
-mem-path and -mem-prealloc, see man qemu.

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-04  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAG4Ohu_ZxZodnVpA=ym0WdM++Bdhwkx8MUg69aQHG8kOfTUB=A@mail.gmail.com>
2013-09-03 23:56 ` Mapping guest memory from another process? Cutter 409
2013-09-04  8:47   ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
     [not found]     ` <CAG4Ohu-6Rksa3UgirBAKBEuWst6gG2yc4EUWebfn2U=MU9FwnA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-09-04 17:10       ` Cutter 409
2013-09-09 10:01         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-09  9:33       ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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