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Re: [Qemu-devel] Impractical ideas?
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David Woodhouse |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Impractical ideas? |
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Fri, 07 May 2004 10:44:20 +0100 |
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 17:08 +0100, Robert Wittams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Having installed Win2k and various Linuxes under qemu, I've got all excited
> at the potential of this project, and have been entertaining all kinds of
> possibly impractical ideas...
>
> I was wondering if anyone had thought of using Qemu + a special kernel
> module to do reverse engineering of binary or windows only drivers.
>
> I'm not sure if I'm missing something really obvious, but it seems like the
> following should be possible:
>
> Run a virtual machine in qemu with, for example, the binary nvidia drivers
> on a linux system. On the host, a kernel module is configured that can
> perform any operations on the hardware that are necessary (io writes and
> dma, etc) and report interrupts to qemu.
Someone was muttering the other day about the possibility of putting
qemu in the kernel and using it to run i386 binary-only modules in
non-i386 host kernels.
I think it's a sick idea, but I might look at it anyway. After all, it's
no worse than running the ACPI crap in an interpreter.
--
dwmw2
Re: [Qemu-devel] Impractical ideas?,
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