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From: Kyle Hayes <kyle@silverbeach.net>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Idea: Qemu as test coverage tool for kernels
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:08:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601292208.26827.kyle@silverbeach.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY104-F59C47E86DB180621BD9EFFF170@phx.gbl>

On Saturday 28 January 2006 04:26, Blue Swirl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Qemu's system emulators could be modified to output information about
> the code areas which have been executed by the virtual CPU. The output
> could then be used in standard test coverage tools. The benefit would be
> the ability to get kernel-level coverage data.

You might want to look a valgrind.  The KDE project uses it heavily for 
memory leak and other types of problem detection.  It is a sort of 
intermediate step between an interpreter and Qemu.  I'm not sure where it 
lives, but Google should find it.

Best,
Kyle

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-30  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-28 12:26 [Qemu-devel] Idea: Qemu as test coverage tool for kernels Blue Swirl
2006-01-29  5:26 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2006-01-29 10:14   ` Blue Swirl
2006-01-30  6:08 ` Kyle Hayes [this message]
2006-01-30  9:37   ` Daniel Veillard

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