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[Xen-devel] Re: X86_emulate to be moved into qemu...

To: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: X86_emulate to be moved into qemu...
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 21:15:03 +0100
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On 17 May 2006, at 21:17, Petersson, Mats wrote:

When using x86_emulate.c inside qemu, we'd need to feed in the virtual
address, but we also need to translate to (guest-)physical address. Any
hints or tricks for this, or do I need to read the page-table and get
the info that way [and CAN I even do that]? [And I'm sorry if this shows
my complete and utter ignorance of how Xen and QEMU operates together,
but I'm afraid that I'm still learning these things].

Yes, you could walk pagetables. But equally you can pass in your translated CR2 value --- i.e., pass in a pseudophysical address. That address will then be passed to the special read/write hook functions, so you avoid needing to do the translation inside those.

Another interesting question is what we do with the dozen or so "new"
include-files that are needed to make x86_emulate.c compile inside the
tools/ioemu directory. At the moment, I've just created directories
inside tools/libxc and linked the necessary header files into those
directories... Is that the proper solution?

What header files are those? It builds in tools/test/ without so many header files.

 -- Keir


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