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Re: [Xen-devel] viewing memory in domU
Bryan D. Payne wrote:
I'm looking at developing an application to run in dom0 that will
need a view into the memory of machines in domU. For now it will be
a read-only view, but I'd like to experiment with read-write later.
I've done some poking around in the source code and found the
xc_map_foreign_range function in libxc. From what I could tell, this
is (at least one way) how to do this. So, a couple of questions:
Yup, this is the right function to use.
* This function doesn't seem to be used very much. The only usage
that I could find was in the XenTrace tool. So I just wanted to
confirm that this function was still maintained and not getting ready
to go away with the 3.0 changes.
Yup, it's critical for both domain creation and save/restore. See
libxc/xc_linux_build.c or libxc/xc_linux_save.c for other examples of use.
* Is there any reason that this functionality isn't implemented in
the lowlevel/xc library in python? Perhaps just because there isn't
as much demand for it? Or is there a deeper implementation issue?
Things that are that low-level are usually performance sensitive (like
migration) so we implement it in C. Plus, I think it's non-trivial to
expose raw memory to Python (with doing a copy).
* Are there other ways to view the memory of domU machines?
Similarly, are there any ways to view items such as CPU registers of
the domU machines?
No, xc_map_foreign_range is The Way. You can get the register state of
a domU via xc_domain_get_vcpu_context().
* Given that the type of usage that I have in mind is going to be
somewhat high bandwidth (i.e., need to constantly read and re-read
memory on the domU machine(s)), is this function the best way to go?
Or would you recommend that I look into another way?
xc_map_foreign_range() actually maps the physical page into dom0's
address space. You're limited by the virtual address space available in
dom0 (so you may have to remap portions of the domUs memory into your
window) but there shouldn't be any performance overhead once it's mapped.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
Thanks for the help!
-bryan
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