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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: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 11:33:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130909093344.GD16629@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG4Ohu-6Rksa3UgirBAKBEuWst6gG2yc4EUWebfn2U=MU9FwnA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 10:35:56AM -0400, Cutter 409 wrote:
> Thanks, I'll try that. Do you know of any way to get at the VCPU structure
> from another process? I'm looking to have an event triggered from the guest
> which will notify my application. In Xen I use an event channel, and then I
> can call a function to retrieve the relevant VCPU context.

At this point it might be worthwhile to describe what you're trying to
achieve.

I can think of two ways to get vcpu state from a third process: QMP
monitor or kvm.ko file descriptors.  (Ignoring the possibility of using
the gdbstub.)

But the cleanest and best way depends on what exactly you are trying to
do.

Stefan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-09  9:33 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
     [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 [this message]

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