From: Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Basim Baig <basimbaig@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU Memory subsystem
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:04:28 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C3FAFC.3020700@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHPk7wS9hV7Em=NLBxQwYiJACa3GJwgkXLCR42a8F1LP4utHOA@mail.gmail.com>
于 2013-6-21 9:51, Basim Baig 写道:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently working on a project where I aim to log every memory access
> made by a virtual machine running inside of QEMU (for analyzing kernel
> behavior). My initial approach is to possibly hook into the QEMU mmu
> implementation and find the place where the guest->host page translation or
> lookup is done. In this way I can know any pages accessed by the guest
> (This is only the first level. Eventually I would want to get logging at
> pointer granularity). I have been reading through the source code and
> online documentations for a week now to get a general sense of the qemu
> internals and codebase.
>
> I just wanted some advice on what direction I should head to (or who I can
> talk to) If I really want to get into depth of how I can make significant
> changes to qemu memory management and mmu subsystem.
>
> Thanks,
> Mirza Basim Baig
> Stony Brook University
>
I think you can archieve your goal relative easily in soft-mmu mode,
but in KVM case, you will need to dig a bit in kvm.ko in kernel source
code.
--
Best Regards
Wenchao Xia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-21 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-21 1:51 [Qemu-devel] QEMU Memory subsystem Basim Baig
2013-06-21 7:04 ` Wenchao Xia [this message]
2013-06-21 16:16 ` Lluís Vilanova
2013-06-22 20:43 ` Basim Baig
2013-07-17 15:19 ` Yaohui
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