Disabling Monitor Commands

2024-09-19 Thread Richard Schmitt
We would like to deploy a hardened version of QEMU where certain monitor commands are disabled. I have found references on the web to a `-monitor-disable-cmds` option to qemu yet it appears non standard and not in the mail tree. Is anyone familiar with a fork of QEMU that supports this option?

Unit Test Aborts when building with -ftrapv compiler option

2024-02-08 Thread Richard Schmitt
In an attempt to build qemu with hardened gcc compiler options, we specified the -ftrapv switch rather than the -fwrapv switch. The switches define the behavior of integer overflows. -ftrapv causes an abort on integer overflow, -fwrapv causes overflows to simply wrap without any error indicatio