[Qemu-devel] accessing host system

[Qemu-devel] accessing host system

[Don Raikes]

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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.

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Re: [Qemu-devel] accessing host system

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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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