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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Saving state on a context switch
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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Can anyone think of a way to save and restore an additional cpu state 
variable during a context switch without modifying the target operating 
system? Basically I would like to add a variable to the CPUState 
structure that is saved and restored with the registers.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Nuri