From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47147 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pvmld-0002WK-2p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 03:23:14 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pvmlb-0006EU-II for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 03:23:12 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:12521) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pvmlb-0006EQ-5t for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 03:23:11 -0500 Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 08:23:07 +0000 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] accessing host system Message-ID: <20110305082307.GA14667@amd.home.annexia.org> References: <995f3229-954c-4321-ab3c-3ee12d1c210d@default> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <995f3229-954c-4321-ab3c-3ee12d1c210d@default> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Don Raikes Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw