On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 at 16:12, Stephen Bates via <qemu-discuss@nongnu.org> wrote: > > Hi > > I am exploring the rather awesome TCG Plugin feature of QEMU > (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/tcg-plugins.html#). The latest > documentation for this feature states: > > "This is a new feature for QEMU and it does allow people to develop > out-of-tree plugins that can be dynamically linked into a running QEMU > process". > > However all the examples given on the documentation page show cases where the > plugin is loaded at QEMU invocation time. Is there any documentation or > associated material that discusses how a plugin can be dynamically linked > into a running QEMU process? I would very much like to be able to experiment > with this capability. Also, if so, is there a way to unlink the plugin from > the running process if needed?
I think when that document says "dynamically linking into a running QEMU process" what it means is exactly "loaded at invocation time": at the point when QEMU is processing the command line options it is already running. The idea is that this is a contrast from "you needed to compile this into QEMU when you built the QEMU binary", i.e. statically linked. Cc'd Alex to check whether I'm right. thanks -- PMM
