RE: [Qemu-devel] Guest memory mapping in Qemu

2010-03-24 Thread Michael T
>> I was wondering whether something in-between would also >> be feasible. That is, chunks of guest address space (say 4MB chunks for >> the sake of the argument) are mmapped into the address space of the Qemu >> process on the host, and when an access to guest memory is made, there is >> an initi

Re: [Qemu-devel] Guest memory mapping in Qemu

2010-03-24 Thread Paul Brook
> If the technical documentation at > http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix05/tech/freeni > x/full_papers/bellard/bellard_html/index.html is still valid (I think it > is), Qemu has two modes of handling access to guest memory - system > emulation, in which an entire guest

[Qemu-devel] Guest memory mapping in Qemu

2010-03-24 Thread Michael T
Hello, This is an idle question in the sense that, much as I would like to, I know for a fact that I won't have the time to look at implementing this. I'm not expecting other people to seriously look at doing it either, but I would be interested on your thoughts. If the technical documentatio