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From: Fernando Carrijo <fcarrijo@yahoo.com.br>
To: Heli <helicoterus-elih@yahoo.it>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How does a system call work on QEMU?
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 11:41:35 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1242571295.4839.21.camel@pc-fernando> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A0FCED5.6070005@yahoo.it>

On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 10:46 +0200, Heli wrote:
> So it this the architecture of qemu, emulator version?
> QEMU is a process that gives to o.s.guest a virtual hw
> layer.
> Every guest will be run by a QEMU instance.
> 
> See picture schema I prepaired: http://yfrog.com/7gqemulayersj
> 
> So system calls go from a guest application to its
> operating system that communicates with its virtual
> hardware. QEMU receives a system call and software emulator
> QEMU performs a system call in O.S. host.
> It is right?

I'm not a virtualization person myself, so other people might offer you
more convenient sugestions but, with the due respect, I think you might
be better served by an introductory text on operating systems. The 3rd
edition of Andrew Tanenbaum's Modern Operating Systems, for instance,
has a short section specifically devoted to virtualization which is
clear enough to non-experienced readers and, I guess, answers most of
your questions.

Fernando Carrijo.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-17 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-14  6:50 [Qemu-devel] How does a system call work on QEMU? helicoterus-elih
2009-05-14 10:19 ` Paul Brook
2009-05-14 13:10   ` Heli
2009-05-14 16:40     ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-14 17:11       ` grisu46
2009-05-14 17:48         ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-14 18:00           ` grisu46
2009-05-15  4:49             ` Glauber Costa
2009-05-17  8:46           ` Heli
2009-05-17  9:31             ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-17 14:41             ` Fernando Carrijo [this message]
2009-05-14 14:57 ` Mulyadi Santosa
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-15  8:54 helicoterus-elih
2009-05-13 18:41 helicoterus-elih
2009-05-14  4:38 ` Mulyadi Santosa

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