From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
To: Don Raikes <DON.RAIKES@oracle.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] accessing host system
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 08:23:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110305082307.GA14667@amd.home.annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <995f3229-954c-4321-ab3c-3ee12d1c210d@default>
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:27:57PM -0800, Don Raikes wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am new to qemu, but have a specific application in mind.
>
> I want to use a qemu emulated knopix system on a usb key to do diagnostics on a running windows system.
>
> Is there a way for me to access things like the host system's memory to get a dump of it, host system hardware configuration so I can gain a map of what hardware is in the system, and/or what processes are running on the host system?
>
> I know how to do all this from a system that has been rebooted and is running from a linux liveCd, but I want to make this a plug-and-play test system.
>
> Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Of course not in the normal case.
However you might take a look at vhostmd: http://gitorious.org/vhostmd
although AFAIK no one has tried porting vhostmd to Windows.
Rich.
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