Re: [Qemu-discuss] Memory host - guest sharing

[Sławomir Kowalewski]

Hi, 

IVSHMEM will not work because lack of PCI in this case so I must use SYSBUS.

The plan is to create device in /dev and map host RAM memory to it (that contain important data) then pass device to guest so I could read from it.

For now I create simple char device and have problem pass it to guest system.

Should --device parameter work in this case?

Do you have any SysBusDevice - tutorials or examples?

Do I need some Qemu driver, host kernel driver or it should just appear?

Maybe better use here virsh (libvirt)?

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Sławomir Kowalewski

2014-09-05 15:44 GMT+02:00 Sławomir Kowalewski <address@hidden>:

Hi,

does somebody use IVSHMEM on arm host/guest?

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Sławomir Kowalewski

2014-09-03 12:06 GMT+02:00 Sławomir Kowalewski <address@hidden>:

Hi, 

this is one of possible solution but we can't use pci but sysbus instead.

So there will be need to rewrite IVSHMEM.

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Sławomir Kowalewski

2014-09-03 11:47 GMT+02:00 Tetsuya.Mukawa <address@hidden>:

Hi Sławomir,

If you are using linux, how about using IVSHMEM?
You may be able to get physical memory from hugetlbfs on host, then
export it as pci memory to a guest.
Then, mmap it from user application of the guest.

Thanks,
Tetsuya

(2014/09/03 18:19), Sławomir Kowalewski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have application on host system that using part of RAM to create
> some kind of tables. I need to give access to this memory to
> application that is running on guest system.
>
> What is the easiest way to do it?
>
> I came up with two ideas.
>
> 1. Write driver for Qemu and kernel that will use sysbus to get
> addresses from host and map memory into file on guest.
> 2. Map part of memory into file on host and then use libvirt XML
> configuration file to pass created file into guest system.
>
> Do you have better ideas or know why one of mine will not work?
>
> Best Regards
> Sławomir Kowalewski