Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qmp: extend QMP to provide read/write access to physical memory

[Eric Blake]

On 11/26/2014 01:27 PM, Bryan D. Payne wrote:
> This patch adds a new QMP command that sets up a domain socket. This
> socket can then be used for fast read/write access to the guest's
> physical memory. The key benefit to this system over existing solutions
> is speed. Using this patch, guest memory can be copied out at a rate of
> ~200MB/sec, depending on the hardware. Existing solutions only achieve
> a small fraction of this speed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bryan D. Payne <address@hidden>

> +
> +##
> +# @pmemaccess
> +#
> +# This command enables access to guest physical memory using
> +# a simple protocol over a UNIX domain socket.
> +#
> +# @path Location to use for the UNIX domain socket
> +#
> +# Since: 2.3
> +##
> +{ 'command': 'pmemaccess', 'data': { 'path': 'str' } }

In addition to Fam's review, I have a question - does this code properly
use qemu_open() so that I can use 'add-fd' to pass in a pre-opened
socket fd into fdset 1, then call pmemaccess with '/dev/fdset/1'?  If
not, can you please fix it to allow this usage?

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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