[Qemu-devel] QEMU extension

[G Portokalidis <georgios.portokalidis@gmail.com>]

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Hello,

I'm writing concerning a possible use for qemu in a project related to
network security.

I'm looking for an emulator where I could load an entire (recent) OS,
like Linux 2.6 or Windows XP and run multiple, potentially CPU
intensive, services (IIS, Apache, MySQL, etc).

For the needs of the project I need to be able to know every instruction
executed by the guest OS, and run custom code whenever an instruction of
particular interest appears (doesn't really matter whether it's C or
x86, but preferably the first).

So my first question is whether we could run Linux 2.6 and most
importantly Windows XP on qemu without stability issues. Second, does
the current design of qemu allows me to implement the functionality
described in the above paragraph.

The developed code will be released under GPL and could be later
incorporated in qemu if it provides commonly desired functionality.

Finally, what's the performance of qemu compared with a PC (how many
times slower)?

Cheers,
Georgios Portokalidis

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Georgios Portokalidis
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FEW, Department of Computer Science
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